When's Your Birthday?

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When's Your Birthday?
Directed by	Harry Beaumont
Produced by	Robert Harris David L. Loew
Written by	Harvey Gates Malcolm Stuart Boylan Samuel M. Pyke
Screenplay by	Harry Clork H.W. Hanemann Richard Macaulay
Based on	the play by John Frederick Ballard
Starring	Joe E. Brown Marian Marsh
Music by	Sam Wineland John Leipold Marlin Skiles
Cinematography	George Robinson
Editing by	Jack Ogilvie
Studio	David L. Loew Productions
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release dates	February 19, 1937
Running time	75 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English Spanish

When's Your Birthday? is a 1937 American film directed by Harry Beaumont. While original prints of this film had a cartoon sequence in Technicolor directed by Bob Clampett and Leon Schlesinger, most prints (including the Internet Archive) have the sequence in black-and-white.

Plot summary

Dustin Willoughby (Joe E. Brown) is a prizefighter and believer in astrology, who only wins when the stars are in alignment.

Cast

Joe E. Brown - Dustin Willoughby
Marian Marsh - Jerry Grant
Fred Keating - Larry Burke
Edgar Kennedy - Mr. Henry Basscombe
Maude Eburne - Mrs. Fanny Basscombe
Suzanne Kaaren - Diane Basscombe
Margaret Hamilton - Mossy - the Maid
Minor Watson - James J. Regan
Frank Jenks - Lefty - Regan's Henchman
Don Rowan - Steve - Regan's Henchman
Granville Bates - Judge O'Day
Charles Judels - Acropolis, the Headwaiter
Corky - Zodiac, the Dog

Soundtrack

"Toreador Song" from Carmen by Georges Bizet
William Tell Overture by Gioachino Rossini
Happy Birthday to You by Mildred J. Hill and Patty Hill
Ruth Robin with Manny Harmon and His Orchestra – I Love You from Coast to Coast, music and lyrics by Albert Stillman, Alex Hyde and Basil Adlam
Sobre las Olas (Over the Waves) by Juventino Rosas
Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa
When the Moon Comes over the Mountain, music and lyrics by Kate Smith, Howard Johnson and Harry M. Woods

External links

When's Your Birthday? at the Internet Movie Database
When's Your Birthday? is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more]

v t e Films directed by Harry Beaumont

1910s	Brown of Harvard (1918)

1920s	The Gold Diggers (1923) Main Street (1923) Beau Brummel (1924) The Lover of Camille (1924) Our Dancing Daughters (1928) The Broadway Melody (1929) Speedway (1929)

1930s	Great Day (1930) Lord Byron of Broadway (1930) Children of Pleasure (1930) Those Three French Girls (1930) Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) Laughing Sinners (1931) Are You Listening (1932) Faithless (1932) When Ladies Meet (1933) Murder in the Private Car (1934) When's Your Birthday? (1937)

1940s	Maisie Goes to Reno (1944)) Up Goes Maisie (1946) The Show-Off (1946) Undercover Maisie (1947) Alias a Gentleman (1948)

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