Casts & Crew
Also Directed by Joseph Santley
The life of Stephen Foster, composer who was the influence for the early Minstrel shows.
An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
A young woman (Rita Hayworth) engaged to a millionaire (Alan Mowbray) falls for the understudy (Tony Martin) in a Broadway musical.
His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.
Jane's dad (Tombes) is an oil field worker who comes into a fortune and is then pushed into society by his wife.
Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"
This musical comedy stars radio star Al Pearce has a double role playing himself and Elmer Blurt, the leader of a small-town band that struggles toward stardom in the big city. Their journey begins when Elmer decides to eject their female singer because she isn't really right. Unfortunately, her angry father is their sponsor and when he finds out, he withdraws all support.
On the day that United Broadcasting System's new building is dedicated, bumbling vice-president Harold L. Montgomery, Sr. discovers that he gave the wrong survey to the builders.....
A film company hires a gangster to mock himself holding up a bank, but he succeeds too well and makes off with the money. But all ends well.
When You're Smiling is distinguished by the presence of several top recording artists of 1950. The wafer-thin plotline concerns the misadventures of Texan Gerald Durham (Jerome Courtland), who arrives in the Big City to learn the ropes of the music business. Durham not only ends up with a recording contract, but also wins heroine Peggy Martin (Lola Albright) in the bargain. So much for the story. The principal selling card of When You're Smiling consists of the guest-star turns by Frankie Laine, Bob Crosby, The Modernaires, The Mills Brothers, Kay Starr and Billy Daniels.
