January 20 movie: Broadway Gondolier. Dick Powell plays a classically trained singer working as a cab driver, who goes to Italy and poses as a gondolier so he can get a job singing for a radio show sponsored by a cheese company. The plot sounds convoluted, but is actually fairly simple as screwball comedies go. Joan Blondell costars, and there are also two songs by the Mills Brothers. Including "Lulu's Back in Town," which is one of my favorite Mel Torme songs. I had no idea it had been around since 1934.
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