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Naughty But Nice
Naughty But Nice (aka: The Professor Steps Out)
"The " Oomph" Girl's Greatest Tri-" Oomph"

-- Synopsis: A nerdy professor Don Hardwick (Dick Powell) teaches at Winfield College and detests the new swing music that is the craze but somehow reluctantly ends up becoming the best-selling composer on the pop hit parade.

* Although Dick Powell is a good singer and dancer, he doesn't sing in this film and the dance scenes are cut so you don't see much of him dancing either. Maxie Dorf and Midge Dare along with a young Connie Wydel dance the Jitterbug.

 

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More Film Information below
Date:Studio:Director:Availability:
1939Warner Brothers / Simitar VideoRay Enright
[DVD | VHS]
Runtime:Country Made:Language:Color:
89 minutes USA English Black and White
Genre:Featured Dancer  Featured DanceDance Rating  
Comedy / Musical / College
Maxie Dorf & Midge DareJitterbug Very Good
 
Known DancersChoreographersActors / Actresses
Connie Wydel Leo F. Forbstein (musical director)Allen Jenkins (Joe Dirk)
Dick Powell  Ann Sheridan (Zelda Manion) 
Maxie Dorf & Midge Dare Dick Powell (Donald Hardwick)  
  Elizabeth Dunn (Aunt Henrietta)
  Gale Page (Linda McKay) 
  Granville Bates (Judge)
  Halliwell Hobbes (Dean Burton)
   Helen Broderick (Aunt Martha)
  Jerry Colonna (Allie Gray)
  Luis Alberni (Stanislaus Pysinski)
  Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom ('Killer')
  Ronald Reagan (Ed Clark)
  Vera Lewis (Aunt Annabella)
  William B. Davidson (Samuel 'Sam)
  Zasu Pitts (Aunt Penelope )
 
Dances performed in this film    Special Dance Interest
Jitterbug n/a n/a Jitterbug
       
       
       
 
Some Music Titles in Film Bands / Musicians / Singers Posters / Lobby Cards
A Dream of Love Dick Powell (doesn't sing) n/a
Corn Pickin      
Die Walkü re (The Valkyries)      
Hooray for Spinach      
I Don't Believe in Signs      
I'm Happy About the Whole Thing      
In a Moment of Weakness      
Liebestraum No.3      
Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major 'Eroica'      
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor      
Symphony No.8 in B Minor 'Unfinished, ' D.759      
The Bohemian Girl      
 
Stage versions of the film Cast Recording(s) / Soundtracks Similar Films Sheet Music Covers
n/a n/a n/a n/a
       
 
Books Available on this film ...
Title Author Date Published Publisher
n/a n/a ?? ??
 
Other...
 
November 2, 2005
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