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Name: Alexander's Ragtime Band
Released: 1938-8-19
Cast: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman, Jack Haley

Alexander's Ragtime Band

NR
1h 47m
1938

80%

Tyrone Power stars in this engaging, romantic extravaganza featuring music by Irving Berlin. When an early 1900s San Francisco aristocrat changes his name to Alexander, it gives him the freedom to introduce the town to a whole new band sound – swing! With this comes success, and a love affair with his lead singer (Alice Faye) in this beloved classic that also features Don Ameche and Ethel Merman.

Director:

Henry King

Producer:

Darryl F. Zanuck

Writer:

Kathryn Scola, Lamar Trotti, Richard Sherman

Cast:

Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman, Jack Haley, Jean Hersholt, Helen Westley, John Carradine, Paul Hurst, Wally Vernon, Ruth Terry, Douglas Fowley, Chick Chandler, Eddie Collins

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

80%

Reviews

TV Guide

28 of Irving Berlin's greatest songs make this energetic, handsomely mounted production a must-see for musical fans.

Irving Berlin's Alexander's Ragtime Band is a grand filmusical which stirs and thrills, a medley of more than 30 pieces, selected from some 600 which Berlin has composed.

Despite Tyrone Powers' stiff turn in the lead, Henry King's Depression-era musical is well-crafted, boasting 28 of Irving Berlin's greatest hits, some nicely performed by Alice Faye at her prime.

Easily a tune every few minutes, all reliably executed, but the film's insistence on musical comprehensiveness leaves room only for the barest of character development.

Great fun.