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Sleepytime Gal

Mar 5, 1942 · 1h 20m
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Comedy
Crime
Music

PLOT

Bessie Cobb, cake decorator in the kitchen of one of Miami's swankier hotels, is the central figure in an elaborate scheme by Chick Patterson, bell captain, who believes he can not only enrich Bessie, but himself, his fiancée, and the kitchen's three screwball chefs, Chef Popodopolis, Chef Petrovich and Chef Barzumium. He plans to enter Bessie in the singing contest sponsored by band-leader Danny Marlowe for a large recording company looking for new talent.. Chick has a recording made of Bessie's voice and substitutes it for that of "Sugar" Caston, who is being sponsored by a big-time gangster and is set up to win. But members of a rival gang, out to get "Sugar", mistake Besiie for her.

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CAST

Judy Canova
Bessie Cobb
Tom Brown
Chick Patterson
Billy Gilbert
Chef Popodopolis
Ruth Terry
Sugar Caston
Thurston Hall
Mr. Adams
Elisha Cook Jr.
Ernie
Jerry Lester
Downbeat
Mildred Coles
Connie Thompson
Directed by Albert S. Rogell

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Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
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Revenue
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Production
Republic Pictures
Country
US
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