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One Hundred Men and a Girl

1937 ★ 84 min
Starring: Deanna Durbin, Adolphe Menjou, Eugene Pallette
Director: Henry Koster
Writer: Charles Kenyon, Bruce Manning, Hanns Kräly
Producer: Joe Pasternak

One Hundred Men and a Girl (styled 100 Men and a Girl in advertising) is a 1937 American musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Deanna Durbin and the maestro Leopold Stokowski. Written by Charles Kenyon, Bruce Manning, and James Mulhauser from a story by Hanns Kräly, the film is about the daughter of a struggling musician who forms a symphony orchestra consisting of his unemployed friends.

Trivia

  • Won the Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment.
  • Also nominated for: Academy Award for Best Picture; Academy Award for Best Story; Academy Award for Best Film Editing; Academy Award for Best Sound.
  • Leopold Stokowski was, at the time of the film's release, co-conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra with Eugene Ormandy.
  • Political and artistic differences with the orchestra's board had already led Stokowski to allow Ormandy to assume a greater leadership role at the orchestra and eventually would lead Stokowski to break with the orchestra entirely.
  • The music was recorded in multi-channel stereophonic sound but released in monaural sound; three years later Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra appeared in the first feature film to be presented in stereo, Fantasia.

Previous Showings

9 Runs • 8 Festivals

4,115 tickets sold

Original Billings: 1 run (October 17, 1937)

Original Run: October 17, 1937 (Sunday - Wednesday)

All runs on record (9):

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