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Can't Help Singing | 
| Director: Frank Ryan
Actors: Deanna Durbin, Robert Paige (iv), Akim Tamiroff, David Bruce, Leonid Kinskey
Studio: Universal Studios
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 8928
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Hifi Sound, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Russian (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0783220952
UPC: 096898196734
EAN: 9780783220956
ASIN: 6304296991
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1944
Release Date: January 28, 1997
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Condition: BRAND NEW - FACTORY SEALED - OUT OF PRINT AND VERY HARD TO FIND.
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 Breathtaking!!! March 11, 2003
Veronica L. Rivera (Glendale, CA United States)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Beautiful scenery, memorable songs, and a great cast headed by Deanna Durbin and Robert Page make this a wonderful movie to watch again and again.
Durbin plays the rich daughter of a senator who runs away to good old California in search of her army boyfriend (David Bruce) who's really only interested in her money and prestige.
But along the way comes tall, ruggedly handsome Robert Page to the rescue! It's a love-hate relationship between Page and Durbin at first, but in the end, love conquers all!!
This movie is a must own for anyone who loves fun, springtime musicals!!! Gorgeous outfits too by the way.
Glorious Technicolor Kern musical with Durbin at peak July 23, 1999
A. Andersen (Bellows Falls, VT USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Despite Maltin's tepid review, this is a glorious feast for the eyes - ravishing outdoor cinematography in radiant Technicolor. Kern's last original film score is short but a beaut - from the infectious title song through CALIFORNIAY - an attempt to do another "Oklahoma!", there are love songs, book songs, comic songs. Only half a dozen but well written and gloriously sung by Ms. Durbin at her peak. Her only color film. Oscar noms for Best Song and Best Original Score.
Delightful musical in glorious Technicolor! October 8, 1999
JOHN GAYFORD (FORMELLO, (Roma) Italy)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This film is a highly enjoyable picture about a headstrong young woman in the nineteenth century, who runs away from home in the East and joins a wagon train heading West to find her army officer boyfriend. Instead she falls for the cowboy who protects her on the trip ... The score is one of Jerome Kern's best, beautifully arranged, sung and recorded; the number "More and More" was nominated for the 1945 Oscar. Miss Durbin is enchanting and the color print excellent with a clear, beautiful soundtrack. Great quality video too. I looked round at the other viewers and everyone was smiling. What more can I say?
As Happy as Heaven is Wide May 2, 2005
Bobby Underwood (Bakersfield, California United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
If ever a film was filled with sheer joy, this is it. Technicolor only seemed to add to a film's quality in musicals like this one. Can't Help Singing was Deanna Durbin's only film in color and the vibrant hues are stunning as both Durbin and the outdoors have never been photographed so beautifully. The brilliance of the colors is striking and the story is fun and wonderful, making this not only one of Durbin's best films, but one of the most entertaining American musicals ever made.
Deanna is a delight as the young Senator's daughter, Caroline Frost, hilariously scheming to marry young calvary officer Robert Latham (David Bruce) against her father's wishes in this adaption of "Girl of the Overland Trail" by Samuel J. and Curtis B. Warshawsky. Jerome Kern wrote some great melodies for the film and E. Y. Harburg gave them lyrics still remembered decades later.
Deanna fakes a fever in hilarious fashion to get out of singing for the president so she can see Robert instead. But when that doesn't work and her dad (Ray Collins) wants to send her to see her uncle in New York, you can see the squirrel cage spinning in her head and the next thing you know she's gone missing, with a 5,000 dollar reward offered by her father for anyone who can find her. She's off to California, of course, as Robert has been sent with the 4th calvary to guard the Carstair holdings.
She gets fleeced along the way and ends up hitching her hopes on a wagon train heading out west. Akim Tamiroff and Leonid Kinskey are a hoot as the bumbling Russian thieves Gregory and Koppa, who spend the entire film attempting to steal Caroline's huge trunk but ending right back where they started! Circumstances pair her with card shark Johnny Lawlor (Robert Paige), who may need to find a new profession.
Of course they have a love-hate relationship which finally becomes just love. Before this one is over Caroline will have to pretend Gregory is her husband to get on the wagon train, then tell Johnny that she's going to California to marry the well known Carstairs (Thomas Gomez)! By the time they arrive in California, of course, all this catches up with Caroline and causes a lot of fun as she has to convince Johnny that he's really the one!
Her dad shows up and knows right away that Johnny's the right pick when he calls Caroline a liar. As her dad explains it, he's a Senator so she can't help it. She comes from a long line of liars! Gomez has a funny bit as Caroline gets him to play along and pretend he's broke up that she's not going to marry him. There is just one fun moment after another in this fine American musical set out west.
A rousing rendition of "Californ-I-Ay" and songs like "Any Moment Now" and the fabulous title tune, "Can't Help Singing," are quite memorable. Deanna softly sings the Oscar nominated "More and More" to Johnny by a moonlit lake. This film makes you want more and more.
You'll find out what Cloud 17 is in this most delightful of films, and be glad you had a chance to see one of the greatest of stars in one of the finest American musicals. A real treat you simply can't miss if you love the movies.
The Great outdoors with Deanna Durbin at her best November 2, 2000
WILLIAM (WEST MIDLANDS United Kingdom)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Deanna Durbin's only film she ever made in Technicolour. Beautiful outdoor setting pre Oklahoma,with fantastic songs sung by Miss Durbin as only she can do...Fantastic scenery including the Grand Canyon,and laughs all the way,with Support from Robert Page and Akim Tameroff...Delightful! Delectable!with the score by Jerome Kern,A must for Durbin Fans.
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