Let's Sing Again (1936)

★★★★ · Still Worth Seeing. · ERD · 2007-07-31

This 1936 movie is Bobby Breen's successful musical movie debut (Originally released by RKO pictures). "Let's Sing Again" may now be considered too sentimental and dated, but it is still worth seeing. I found 8 year old Bobby a talented singer and juvenile actor with lots of showmanship. Obviously, like most of Breen's films, it is a showcase for him. Still, there is an excellent supporting cast-especially Henry Armetta. Breen was one of Eddie Cantor's proteges. His popularity lasted for a few years.

★★★ · And what a showcase! · Dark Moon · 2011-08-08

In his other films, Bobby sings. In this one, he sings opera. La donna è mobile is not an easy piece, and he sings it well. He also sings a few lines from the Neapolitan, Santa Lucia. The story is about opera, too—how Bobby's character finds his way out of an orphanage and into opera, and how opera finally reunites him with his father, who he thought was dead. What a treat this would be for a classical music lover, except… …except for the barely watchable condition of the print they found to digitize. This doesn't remind me of an old 1950's TV, it reminds me of a…