When you have a cast that employs as many familiar faces, never question the
direction, the script, or the acting. Just sit back and enjoy a lot of old friends
because that's what RKO did for you in Sing Your Worries Away.
Starring is Bert Lahr and he and cousin Dorothy Lovett stand to inherit a fortune. Lahr is a zany songwriter and Lovett a cigarette girl in Sam Levene's
nightclub. Levene gets a hold of the information and he hatches a plan to
kill Lahr and marry Lovett. By shotgun if he has to for the latter. He does
however have June Havoc on the side plans to keep her there.
But somehow Levene just can't close the deal. Lahr is helped by new found
friend Buddy Ebsen and also by Patsy Kelly who gets her share of wisecracks
in. It's almost a contest between Havoc and Kelly as to who got the most
zingers in the script.
Havoc, Ebsen, Lahr, and Alvino Rey's Orchestra with the King Sisters get in a
few serviceable musical numbers. Ebsen has a freewheeling dance number
with one of the King Sisters.
All in all very pleasant entertainment from a lot of familiar professionals.
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