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The Cat and the Fiddle is a american film of genre Drama directed by William K. Howard released in USA on 16 february 1934 with Ramón Novarro

The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)

The Cat and the Fiddle
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Released in USA 16 february 1934
Length 1h28
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama,    Musical,    Romance
Rating62% 3.14843.14843.14843.14843.1484

The Cat and the Fiddle is a 1934 American Pre-Code romantic musical film directed by William K. Howard based on the hit 1931 Broadway musical of the same name by Jerome Kern and Otto A. Harbach, about a romance between a struggling composer and an American singer. The film stars Ramon Novarro and Jeanette MacDonald in her MGM debut.

The final reel was filmed in the then newly perfected three-strip Technicolor process, previously used only in Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies cartoons.

Actors

Ramón Novarro

(Victor Florescu)Jeanette MacDonald

(Shirley Sheridan)Frank Morgan

(Jules Daudet)Charles Butterworth

(Charles)Jean Hersholt

(Professor Bertier)
And :
Henry Armetta
Herman Bing
Sterling Holloway
Frank Conroy
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