This is one of those comedies that I usually go for, since it involves a deception that the audience is in on, but many in the film are not. James Melton (a popular singing radio star at the time) goes to work in the music department of the store he inherited to learn about the business and the people.
I've been searching for this film ever since I started my personal film log about 16 years ago with the advent of the VCR and Cable. I saw it in a neighborhood theater in 1936 or '37 in Ohio or Missouri.
Possibly if Harry Warren and Al Dubin had written a memorable hit song from this film, Sing Me a Love Song would be better remembered today. As it is the film is a pleasant enough typical Thirties story where department store clerk Patricia Ellis meets and wins the man of her dreams.
James Melton's bumptious personality and his powerful voice is certainly an acquired taste, and the songs by the famous team of Harry Warren and Al Dubin that are rendered in this movie could not be described as particularly memorable either, although they are pleasant and tuneful enough. At least Ray Enright's direction takes full advantage of the vast store set created by art director, Anton Grot.
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