Twenty Million Sweethearts (First National). Like We're Not Dressing (see below), this is a casual musicomedy in which there are no chorus girls and most of the songs are allotted to one young man. It makes tentative gestures at satirizing Radio, as when ''Uncle Pete" (Allen Jenkins) elaborately professes to detest children, and a Jewish soap manufacturer (Joseph Cawthorne ) lets his wife, niece and cousins run his programs. Twenty Million Sweet lie arts mostly concerns a fatuous singing waiter (Dick Powell) who becomes a celebrated crooner. Discovered singing "The Man on...
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