Scatterbrain (1940)
This early Judy Canova vehicle was conceived along the same lines as the 1937 20th Century-Fox musical Kentucky Moonshine. A movie studio sends its talent scouts to hillbilly country, there to find a new singing star. Actually it's all a publicity stunt; the studio has planted a Hollywoodite in the hills to await a phony discovery. But the scouts come upon genuine mountain girl Judy Canova instead, and it is she who makes the grade in Tinseltown. Canova's crowning moment in Scatterbrain is the scene in which she washes a floor gliding about on roller skates with brushes tied to them, while singing that top-40 favorite "Benny the Beaver". ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Judy Canova, Alan Mowbray, (more)
- Director(s):
- Gus Meins
Synopsis of Scatterbrain
This early Judy Canova vehicle was conceived along the same lines as the 1937 20th Century-Fox musical Kentucky Moonshine. A movie studio sends its talent scouts to hillbilly country, there to find a new singing star. Actually it's all a publicity stunt; the studio has planted a Hollywoodite in the hills to await a phony discovery. But the scouts come upon genuine mountain girl Judy Canova instead, and it is she who makes the grade in Tinseltown. Canova's crowning moment in Scatterbrain is the scene in which she washes a floor gliding about on roller skates with brushes tied to them, while singing that top-40 favorite "Benny the Beaver". ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Scatterbrain
- Judy Canova - Judy Hull
- Ruth Donnelly - Miss Stevens
- Joseph Cawthorn - Nicolas Raptis
- Isabel Jewell - Esther Harrington
- Emmett Lynn - Pappy Hull
- Matty Malneck and His Orchestra
- Alan Mowbray - J.R. Russell
- Eddie Foy, Jr. - Eddie MacIntyre
- Wallace Ford - Sam Maxwell
- Luis Alberni - Prof. DeLemma
- James A. Starr - Joe Kelton
- Director(s):
- Gus Meins
- Writer(s):
- Jack Townley, Val Burton, Paul Conlon
- Producer(s):
- Gus Meins
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