Gloria Jean

Fields wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beat up for ogling a woman... (imdb)

Agent (Marx) has his only client (Miranda) pose as both a French chanteuse and Brazilian bombshell to fool nightclub owner (Cochran) (imdb)

A construction worker takes charge of the daughter of a fellow worker killed in an accident. He brings the girl to New York to try to find her uncle. When he finds him, he discovers that the uncle has spent his life savings on a restaurant that turns out to be a worthless dive. He's determined to help the girl and her uncle make the restaurant a success. (imdb)

Two bank robbers, Cliff Banks and Sam Baker go their separate ways while being chased by the law. Now fleeing alone, Cliff begins to reflect, via flash back, the various events and unsavory people in his life that lead to his life of crime. Cliff ends up in the idyllic rural town of Paradise Valley. Cliff discovers the local people are very trusting and decides the town would be the perfect place to pull a scam. (imdb)

Two zanies get mixed up with a Southern colonel, his beautiful daughters, a nightclub and a haunted mansion. (imdb)

Lippert Productions' Air Strike is grounded for most of its 63 minutes by its skintight budget. The much-awaited aerial sequences, many of them lifted from newsreel and training footage, are far more fascinating than the film's cliched plot. You know the story: Navy commander Richard Denning, stuck with a bunch of raw recruits, runs 'em ragged until they emerge as a topnotch jet-attack squadron. Many of the exterior sequences were lensed on location on the US aircraft carrier Essex. (allrovi.com)

Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her. (imdb)

The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder. (imdb)

It Comes Up Love was typical of teenaged songstress Gloria Jean's Universal vehicles: good songs and a strong cast squandered on a low-budget B effort. Jean and Mary Lou Harrington play Victoria and Constance, the precocious daughters of big-city businessman Tom Peabody (Ian Hunter). Long separated from his girls, who've been raised in the country, the widowed Peabody brings them to live with him in New York. (allmovie.com)

Teenaged soprano Gloria Jean plays the Little-Miss-Fixit heroine in Universal's Little Bit of Heaven. The most precocious member of an impoverished 10th Avenue family, little Midge (Gloria Jean) makes an impulsive appearance on a "man in the street" radio interview show. Catapulted to stardom, Midge becomes the primary support for her family, all of whom begin behaving atrociously and overspended insanely. The only one who doesn't go over the top is Midge's lovable Grandpa (C. (allmovie.com)

At the Davis School of the Theatre, ran by Jeremy Taswell, where teen-age kids study drama and the serious arts, instructors Johnny Hanley and Alice Taswell are in love. The students, including Donald, Patricia and Peggy, secretly want to become singers. Patricia's aunt, Mrs. Davis, owns the school and disapproves. Donald has written a musical comedy for the year's class play, which the students want to do, but Mrs. Davis has selected and insists they do Sophocles' "Antigone". (imdb)

A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed because of her background, she determines to show the snooty rich girls she's just as good as they are. (imdb)

A group of entertainers visit the home of a radio singer to try to get her to book them on her show.

Allan Jones is cast as war hero Johnny Kovacs, who wearies of the adulation heaped upon him and takes refuge under an assumed name in a theatrical boarding house. Here he befriends orchestra leader Phil Spitalny and his all-girl aggregation, including the inimitable Evelyn and Her Magic Violin. When Army officials trace Johnny to the boarding house, his new friends assume that he's a deserter and try to convince him to return to duty.

A high-school bandleader captures the attention of a popular coed by winning a music contest.

A poor country girl from Vermont travels to New York City to attend a theatrical school.

A young woman leaves home to earn money for the family, which is not the norm for her sex and social standing.