On the Avenue

On the Avenue
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Directed by	Roy Del Ruth
Written by	Irving Berlin (uncredited story) William M. Conselman Gene Markey Eddie Cherkose (uncredited) Samuel Pokrass (uncredited)
Starring	Dick Powell Madeleine Carroll Alice Faye
Release date(s)	February 12, 1937 (1937-02-12)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

On the Avenue is a 1937 American musical film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Dick Powell, Madeleine Carroll, and Alice Faye. All of the songs in this film were composed by Irving Berlin.

Plot

Gary Blake (Powell) stars in a new show, On the Avenue, with Mona Merrick (Faye). The show contains a satire on "The Richest Girl in the World", Mimi Carraway (Carroll). Mimi and her father (Barbier) are in the audience on opening night and they feel insulted. She goes backstage and tries to get Gary to take the skit out of the show. He refuses and calls her a "bad sport".

Shocked by the remark, Mimi decides to make a date with Gary. They spend the entire evening together and, by morning, have fallen in love. He finally agrees to revise the skit so it can no longer hurt the Carraways. Mona is in love with Gary and is furious when she hears about Gary's date with Mimi. When the Carraways appear to see the revised sketch, she changes it, without Gary's knowledge, making it worse than before. The Carraways decide to file suit against Gary.

To get back at him, Mimi buys the show from the producer and embarrasses Gary by hiring a paid audience to walk out on the show. Word leaks out to the press and Gary is now the laughingstock of New York. Furious, he tears up his contract, refusing to work with Mimi. Soon, Mimi becomes engaged to Arctic explorer Frederick Sims (Mowbray). On her wedding day, Mona arrives and tells Mimi that it was she, not Gary, who changed the skit. She runs out on the wedding and is taken to city hall with Gary to be married.

The movie's action is interspersed with songs from the play, including Berlin's songs "He Ain't Got Rhythm," and "Let's Go Slumming On Park Avenue."

Cast

• Dick Powell as Gary Blake
• Madeleine Carroll as Mimi Caraway
• Alice Faye as Mona Merrick
• The Ritz Brothers as themselves
• George Barbier as Commodore Caraway
• Alan Mowbray as Frederick Sims
• Cora Witherspoon as Aunt Fritz
• Walter Catlett as J.J. Dibble
• Douglas Fowley as Eddie Eads
• Joan Davis as Miss Katz
• Stepin Fetchit as Herman 'Step'
• Sig Ruman as Herr Hanfstangel (as Sig Rumann)
• Billy Gilbert as Joe Papaloupas

External links

• On the Avenue at the TCM Movie Database
• On the Avenue at the Internet Movie Database
• On the Avenue at AllRovi