

Something to Sing About
A Cagney you have never seen!
James Cagney has a rare chance to show his song-and-dance-man roots in this low-budget tale of a New York bandleader struggling with a Hollywood studio boss.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $900K
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- musical
- bandleader
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- TheatricalNR30 Sept 1937
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Something to Sing About was released on 30 September 1937.
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CinemaSerf
8/11/2025
There aren’t many actors who can go from menacing gangster to top-hatted crooner, but James Cagney was one of them, and he does it quite amiably in this comedy. With the unwieldy name of “Thaddeus McGillicuddy”, he is a band-leader in New York who is offered a contract in Hollywood but after a bit of stunt fisticuffs goes quite spectacularly wrong, he throws in that towel and heads off on a vacation with his fiancée …
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