What if your secret talent was the thing that could ruin your marriage—or save it? Paul Douglas SINGS, baby.
Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to become an opera singer he indulges her. While organising a concert for her he meets glamorous Cecil Carver. She in turn discovers Leonard has a splendid voice, and encourages him to use it for reasons very much her own.
Acting
Paul Douglas's unlikely operatic turn—who knew?
Direction
Goulding keeps the farce spinning without collapsing.
Costume
Darnell's gowns vs. Douglas's wrecking-ball wardrobe.
Director
Edmund Goulding
Paul Douglas
Leonard Borland aka Logan Bennett
Linda Darnell
Cecil Carver
Celeste Holm
Doris Blair Borland
Charles Coburn
Major Blair
Millard Mitchell
Mike Craig
Lucile Watson
Mrs. Blair
John Hoyt
Wilkins
George Tobias
Rossi
Leon Belasco
Hugo
Tito Vuolo
Makeup Man
Aubrey Mather
Rudolph Hertz
Mae Marsh
Harris
Edwin Max
Cleary
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Paul Douglas was a radio announcer and sportscaster before acting; his singing here was genuinely his own voice, not dubbed.
This is a remake of 1939's 'The Great Victor Herbert,' but gender-flipped—the original had a wife hiding her talent.
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