Music Is Magic is a 1935 American musical film directed by George Marshall and starring Alice Faye and Bebe Daniels. It is based on a play by Jesse Lasky Jr. and Gladys Unger. The film was Daniels' last American screen appearance.

Plot

Diane De Valle is an aging theatre actress who can't deal with getting older. Trying to hide it, she has to come to terms she is being replaced by a younger actress. She has to defeat the much younger Peggy Harper for a role of a young woman in an upcoming stage production.

Cast

• Alice Faye Peggy Harper

• Bebe Daniels Diane De Valle

• Ray Walker Jack Lambert

• Frank Mitchell Peanuts Harper

• Jack Durant Eddie Harper

• Rosina Lawrence Shirley De Valle

• Thomas Beck Tony Bennett

• Hattie McDaniel Amanda

• Arline Judge Theatre Customer (uncredited)

Soundtrack

Honey Chile

• by Oscar Levant and Sydney Clare

• Sung by Alice Faye

Love is Smiling at Me

• by Oscar Levant and Sydney Clare

• Sung by Alice Faye

Music Is Magic

• by Arthur Johnston and Sydney Clare

• Sung by Alice Faye

La Locumba

• by Raoul Julien and Sydney Clare

• Sung by Alice Faye

Reception

In their December, 1935 edition, Modern Screen gave the film a one-star review saying "the results are not so good." Although not mentioning the star, Alice Faye, the reviewer commented on some of the other cast members, saying Ray Walker "does a good job", Frank Mitchell and Jack Durant "do some of their noisy cutting up", Luis Alberni provides "the real laughs" and Bebe Daniels’ "deft impersonation (of a movie star who has seen better days) should cause many a lady about town to wince."

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