UnowPriceless hyped garbage

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

JohnHowardReid Although this movie could be rated as a pleasant musical comedy, it's a bit disappointing – particularly for Alice Faye fans. She's in good voice and looks great, but unfortunately, 20th Century Fox insist on surrounding her – and at times obliterating her altogether – with lesser talents, including the atrocious Ritz Brothers (here making their feature film debut and hogging every aggressively going-on- forever second of it), Adolphe Menjou, Patsy Kelly, Gregory Ratoff, and Ted Healy. Sidney Lanfield is not a strong director and it says much for the aggressive Brothers, plus Kelly and Ratoff, that they succeed in almost obliterating Healy. Ted was no slouch when it came to hogging a scene, but here he's reduced to fourth banana at best. Considering his co-star billing, Menjou's role is actually rather small. His material is no world-beater either. All told, the movie is watchable, but we expect better – much better! – from producer Buddy DeSylva!

mark.waltz Radio singer Alice Faye finds out that her radio job is ending due to the obsession with publicity-seeking society girls with no talent and nothing else to do. With the help of agent Gregory Ratoff, she tries to pose as one of those girls (who actually has talent) yet fails to land a contract. When a drunken John Barrymore like movie actor (Adolphe Menjou) falls under her spell, she begins to get some unwanted publicity as a gold digger, and his agent strains to keep them apart. There's really little more to the plot than that, several mediocre Ritz Brothers sketches thrown in for groans, showing the audience laughing hysterically at their antics, including one "Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde" sketch that isn't even remotely amusing. A magic act by Ted Healy while Patsy Kelly sings a medley of past 20th Century Fox movie themes is much funnier. Tony Martin comes in late as an electric company employee who is discovered by Faye simply walking down the street and ends up on the finale radio show as well. Faye's sultry singing voice is well utilized, as in the title song and the haunting "You Turned the Tables on Me". The result is mixed, fun comedy with Healy and Kelly, the husky voiced Faye very likable, yet plot wise, pretty weak. Menjou's spoof of the Barrymore image, though, is very funny, with references to "Hamlet" which ironically had two productions on Broadway the same year at the same time.

Kalaman "Sing, Baby, Sing" is a passable, sometimes alluring lightweight Fox musical starring Alice Faye, Gregory Ratoff, Patsy Kelly, Adolph Menjou, and introducing The Ritz Brothers. Faye is an aspiring singer/actress who becomes involved with a drunken Shakespearean actor Bruce Farraday(Menjou). Farraday becomes infatuated with Joan after seeing her one night in a nightclub. Joan's agent(Ratoff) sees this occasion as a way of advancing her showbiz career. Patsy Kelly provides good supporting role as Fiz, Joan's friend. The Ritz Brothers perform their often hilarious, often annoying shenanigans, interrupting the story for their routine comic acts. As the other user-comment has said, "Sing,Baby,Sing" is mainly for fans of Alice Faye. It is a good early role for Faye to shine and sparkle, but it is way below her best, most spirited musicals at Fox.

msladysoul This movie is for fans of Alice Faye and Patsy Kelly, and probably film collectors. The movie isn't the greatest, but every studio now and then makes films so actors and actresses have something to do. This movie is what you call a "B" movie. The singing of Alice Faye keeps you watching, the music and dancing is a most, especially if you wanna see how nightclubs, songs, dancing, and life was like in the mid-1930s. Patsy Kelly a great, forgotten comic, keeps you smiling and laughing with her quick one-liners and wisecracks. Patsy Kelly was a skilled, natural comic, she could give Lucille Ball, Martha Raye, Jean Arthur, June Allyson, Ann Sothern, and Carole Lombard a run for their money. All of them were great, but Patsy Kelly had a style of their own. She could also sing and dance. Their were many great female comics, more then men in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Patsy Kelly is a treat.But, some of the forgotten men were The Ritz Brothers are a funny, dancing team, their what you call musical comedy. When Daryll Zanuck saw them in a nightclub he signed them quickly. Basically the movie is about Joan Warren-Alice Faye, who wants to make it, but she doesn't want to be something she's not to make it, but her agent will do anything, anything for her to make it, and while he's doing it they run into all kinds of "drama" but through it all the songs, music, dancing prevail. Great movie if you can catch it on tv.