Flying with Music
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
George Archainbaud
Marjorie Woodworth
George Givot
William Marshall
Edward Gargan
Jerry Bergen
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Florida socialite Ann Andrews becomes infatuated with a Caribbean nightclub singer, Juan Matanza, whom she has only seen in a photograph. In order to meet the singer, she convinces her father to allow her to take a Caribbean holiday with four girl friends and a spinster chaperone. Before leaving, Ann's guide relinquishes his job due to an intense fear of flying, and asks Harry Bernard, a virtual stranger, to take over for him. This fits in with Harry's plans, as he is trying to elude Joe and Wilbur, New York detectives who have followed him from the city. While flying to the islands, Ann attracts the attention of pilot Don Terry, who asks her out to a nightclub when they land. As she plans to search the nightclubs for her photograph lover, Ann agrees. When she then learns that her dream lover sings at a club on the island of La Monica, she convinces Harry to take her and her friends there, inadvertently providing Harry with yet another escape from the detectives. The entire island of La Monica is celebrating a carnival, and Ann and her pals go to see her singer and discover that he is unattractively overweight and years older than his picture would suggest. Ann realizes that she is really in love with Don and goes to him, while Harry learns that Joe is merely bringing him news that he has won a lottery.
Director
George Archainbaud
Cast
Marjorie Woodworth
George Givot
William Marshall
Edward Gargan
Jerry Bergen
Norma Varden
Claudia Drake
Jane Kean
Jayne Hazard
Dorothy O'kelly
Sergio Orta
Rita Montoya
Eddie Durant's Orchestra
Crew
Richard Currier
Chet Forrest
Charles D. Hall
Louis S. Kaye
Holly Morse
Robert Pittack
William Randall
Hal Roach
Margaret Roach
Royer
Roy Seawright
W. L. Stevens
Edward Ward
Edward Ward
M. Coates Webster
Bob Wright
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Score
Best Song
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
The working title of this film was Cobana, although some production charts also listed it as Cubana. The above plot synopsis and credits were taken from a cutting continuity located in copyright records. In 1942, Motion Picture Herald reviewed this film under the title Song of the Lagoon. Flying with Music was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Music (Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture), and Best Song for "Pennies for Peppino." Flying with Music was one of Hal Roach's "streamlined features," a series of short comedies intended to fill the second half of a double bill. The first streamlined feature was the 1941 film Tanks a Million (see below).
