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My Dream Is Yours: Directed by Michael Curtiz, Friz Freleng. With Jack Carson, Doris Day, Lee Bowman, Adolphe Menjou. An agent must search for a new personality to replace a popular singer who refuses to renew his radio contract.
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- Comedy, Music, Musical
- Michael Curtiz, Friz Freleng
- 1949-04-16
My Dream Is Yours is a 1949 American Technicolor musical romantic comedy film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Jack Carson, Doris Day, and Lee Bowman. This was a loose remake of the 1934 Twenty Million Sweethearts , starring Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers .
The story centers around the booming radio business in the late 1940s, with Doug Blake (Jack Carson), a talent scout and agent, about to lose his prize singer, Gary Mitchell (Lee Bowman). Doug has fought for years to make Mitchell a star and now that he’s a celebrity, Gary is ungrateful, spoiled and drinking heavily.
Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace him. In New York, he finds Martha Gibson, a single mother with a great voice.
When Gary Mitchell (Lee Bowman), a highly successful radio singer, decides against renewing his contract, his agent, Doug Blake (Jack Carson), opts to cut ties and find an...
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- Michael Curtiz
- Musical, Comedy
- Jack Carson
He finds one in the form of a single mother, but complications soon occur. Conceited singer Gary Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace him. In New York he finds Martha Gibson, a single mother with a great voice.
A satire of the radio industry, My Dream Is Yours is a loose remake of Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934), with elements of Day's own pre-movie career as a radio and band singer. Jack Carson is a radio talent scout fed up with arrogant radio crooner Lee Bowman.