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Old Man Rhythm is a 1935 American musical film directed by Edward Ludwig from a screenplay by Sig Herzig and Ernest Pagano, based on a story by Herzig, Lewis Gensler, and Don Hartman. The musical director was Roy Webb, with music composed by Lewis Gensler and lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
Old Man Rhythm: Directed by Edward Ludwig. With Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, George Barbier, Barbara Kent, Grace Bradley. A businessman enrolls as a college freshman in order to break up his son's relationship with a gold-digger.
Old Man Rhythm (1935), Mercer's film debut, was a run-of-the-mill college musical. The film's gimmick is that a successful businessman (George Barbier) enrolls in college so he can keep an eye on his son (Buddy Rogers), a student who's in the clutches of a gold digger.
Affluent businessman John Roberts (George Barbier) is a father so devoted that he borders on domineering. So when he gets word that his son in college, Johnny (Charles "Buddy" Rogers), is ...
Comedy. Affluent businessman John Roberts (George Barbier) is a father so devoted that he borders on domineering. So when he gets word that his son in college, Johnny (Charles "Buddy" Rogers), is...
Betty Grable, Johnny Mercer, Grace Bradley and cast sing and dance to "Old Man Rhythm" in 1935. (Bradley, in addition to her own career, was the widow of Ho...
30s style college musical of the very disjointed kind with a lame romance story pushed in between the random musical numbers. Has isolated cool moments like Eric Blore 's lecture on flees, Evelyn Poe singing, oldman George Barbier joining the campus and Grace Bradley as a gold digger.
