The Organ Grinder

The Organ Grinder

1933
8m
5.2

5.2/10

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Overview

A beloved Italian organ grinder plays his music and sings his song through an immigrant-filled ghetto neighborhood, where hard-scrabble kids and well-proportioned matrons get hep to the beat that flows from the organ grinder's calliope. There are lots of spoofs of life on the Lower East Side and lots of monkeyshines as the organ grinder's pet performs "42nd Street" and imitates some Hollywood greats. The monkey takes wing and gets behind the wheel of a car, driving all over the area and wrecking everything.

Status: Released

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies
Harman-Ising Productions The Vitaphone Corporation Leon Schlesinger Productions
Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
English

Quick Facts

Release Date April 8, 1933
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt0024420

Cast

Ken Darby
Ken Darby

Singing Organ Grinder (voice) (uncredited)

Rudolf Ising
Rudolf Ising

Organ Grinder (voice) (uncredited)

Johnny Murray
Johnny Murray

Fat Woman (voice) (uncredited)

Shirley Reed
Shirley Reed

Boop-Oop-a-Doop Singing (voice) (uncredited)

Key Crew

Rudolf Ising
Director
Leon Schlesinger
Producer
Rudolf Ising
Producer
Hugh Harman
Producer