The National Barn Dance
This film gives a fictionalized version of how the popular real-life radio program of the title began.
Hugh Bennett
Casts & Crew
Jean Heather
Charles Quigley
Robert Benchley
Mabel Paige
Charles Dingle
Pat Buttram
Also Directed by Hugh Bennett
The first of a series of six two-reel "Musical Parade" shorts produced in Technicolor for the Paramount 1943-44 production season. The series would continue into 1948, and then were reissued in the early 50's. Songs included "All the Way" and "At the Mardi Gras."
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