President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.
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Warner Baxter | Lawrence Cromwell |
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Madge Evans | Mary Adams |
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James Dunn | Jimmy Dugan |
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Sylvia Froos | Sylvia Froos |
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John Boles | John Boles |
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Arthur Byron | John Harly |
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Shirley Temple | Shirley Dugan |
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Ralph Morgan | Secretary to President |
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Jimmy Dallas | Boy Scout |
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Tess Gardella | Aunt Jemima |
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Frank Mitchell | Senator Danforth |
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Jack Durant | Senator Short |
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Dick Foran | Nick Foran |
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Nigel Bruce | Dinwiddle |
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John 'Skins' Miller | Hill-Billy |
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Stepin Fetchit | George Bernard Shaw |
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Jean Allen | Dancer |
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Dorothy Andre | Dancer |
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Morris Ankrum | Washington Press Correspondent |
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George K. Arthur | Dance Director |
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Zita Baca | Dancer |
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Lynn Bari | White House Secretary |
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Bonita Barker | Dancer |
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Deslys Barnes | Dancer |
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Jane Barnes | Angie |
Director | Hamilton MacFadden |
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Writer | Lew Brown, Will Rogers, Philip Klein, Ralph Spence, Malcolm Stuart Boylan, Rian James, Edward T. Lowe Jr., Hamilton MacFadden | |
Producer | Lew Brown, Winfield R. Sheehan | |
Musician | Arthur Lange | |
Photography | L. William O'Connell, Ernest Palmer |