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Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 7, 2004
Budget $2,000,000
Running Time
1 hour, 46 minutes
Country USA
Studio 20th Century Fox
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Other Titles
• Alexander's Ragtime Band
• Alexanders Ragtime Band (1951)
• Irving Berlin's Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
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Genre: Drama, Love Triangle, Military, World War I, Biography, Showbiz, Hollywood
Tagline: An American Cavalcade!
Plot: ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND offers a star-studded cast (Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, and Ethel Merman) in a sumptuous showcase for 29 fantastic Irving Berlin tunes, including the title song, "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody," "Blue Skies," and "Pack Up Your Sins and Go to the Devil." The music begins rolling in San Francisco, where classically trained violinist Roger Grant (Tyrone Power) flouts his aristocratic family conventions to take up ragtime. He starts a band with composer Charlie Dwyer (Don Ameche) and singer Stella Kirby (Alice Faye). Over the next 30 years, two members of this triangle fall in love, a different two get married, one goes away to war, and the band breaks up and gets back together again. The lead role is based on the lives of George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and Paul Whiteman. Director Henry King's ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND was one of the first and is still one of the best "let's put on a show" films of all time. Love, loyalty, fame, jealousy, duty, honor, and country all play alongside each other as the spectacular cast bursts through this breathtaking showbiz epic.
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| Directed by |
Henry King
Twelve O'Clock High, The Gunfighter, Carousel |
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| Cast |
Tyrone Power
Witness for the Prosecution, The Mark of Zorro, The Razor's Edge |
 | Ethel Merman
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, There's No Business Like Show Business, Call Me Madam |
 | Alice Faye
State Fair, The Gang's All Here, Poor Little Rich Girl | | Jack Haley
The Wizard of Oz, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Poor Little Rich Girl | | | |
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| Music By |
Alfred Newman
All About Eve, The Seven Year Itch, Foreign Correspondent |
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