Bobby Breen
Biography: Bobby Breen |
Breen began appearing as a nightclub and stage singer at age seven, becoming nationally famous in 1936 when he became a regular on Eddie Cantor's weekly radio show. That same year he was hired by RKO and shortly was the studio's leading child star.... more
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Cast: Lee Patrick Leo Carrillo Sol Lesser Bernard Schubert Bernard Vorhaus
Tags: Musical Drama Drama Musical
Length: 72min
In this musical drama, a child is abandoned upon the San Francisco docks. He is found and raised by a fisherman. His life is happy until the fisherman's sister-in-law moves in after her husband dies. She brings her bratty son with her. This upsets the...
Cast: Alan Mowbray Ralph Morgan Charles B. Middleton Steffi Duna Clarence Muse
Length: 62min
Way Down South ranks as among the better Bobby Breen musicals, if only because of its impressive production credits. The film is set in antebellum Louisiana, where young Tim Reid's (Breen) inheritance is highly coveted by crooked attorney Martin Dill...
Cast: Erle C. Kenton Kent Taylor Pedro de Cordoba Joyce Compton Victor Young
Tags: Romantic Adventure Adventure Comedy Musical
Length: 60min
In this musical adventure, a Latin American motorcycle-taxi driver shows an American tourist around his city. He next fixes the tourista up with a pretty Senorita. Then he causes trouble by illegally purchasing tea leaves in the tourist's name....
Cast: Charlie Ruggles Margaret Hamilton Dolores Costello Edward F. Cline Victor Young
Tags: Musical Drama Musical
Length: 79min
Boy soprano Bobby Breen dons a pair of skates in the oddball musical Breaking the Ice. Escaping his super-strict Mennonite relatives, our hero gets a job singing at a Philadelphia ice-skating rink. Here he tries to earn enough money to help his...
Cast: Ned Sparks Warren Hull Edward F. Cline Gloria Holden Ward Bond
Length: 72min
Though it may be difficult for modern audiences to understand or appreciate the appeal of canary-voiced boy soprano Bobby Breen, the fact remains that he was one of the most popular box-office attractions of the 1930s. Adapted from Don Blandings'...
Cast: Basil Rathbone Leon Errol Herbert Rawlinson Donald Meek Leonid Kinskey
Tags: Musical
Length: 80min
Canary-voiced boy wonder Bobby Breen once more croons his way into our hearts in Make a Wish. While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Breen befriends famed composer Basil Rathbone. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Rathbone...
It Happened in New Orleans (1930)
Cast: May Robson Alan Mowbray Eddie "Rochester" Anderson Louise Beavers Charles Butterworth
Length: 93min
In this heart-tugging musical, a Southern boy loses his parents during the Civil War and is forcibly wrenched away from his beloved mammy and sent to New York to live with his Yankee grandma. At first the family resents the rebel upstart, but soon he...
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