Fine Art of Boxing, The (No Stooge in the Ring)
Harvard educated Danny Collins (Rudy Vallee) and street-wise Mike Armstrong (Richard Lane) team up to form the most successful talent agency in New York. Armstrong is in love with nightclub and Broadway songstress Frances Lewis (Rosemary Lane), determined to make her nationally famous with his and Danny's help. Collins sees her, correctly, as a self-centered opportunist willing to capitalize on Mike's affections to further her career. Eventually, she causes Danny and Mike to split. Danny and his assistant 'Off-Beat' Davis (Allen Jenkins) meet Frances' maid Kitty Brown (Ann Miller), a shy tap-dancing wonder, and try to find her work... but without Mike, their new agency can't get going successfully. Mike is in the same bind.
When Danny has the opportunity to produce a New York television variety show with Kitty and Joan Merrill (as herself), he and Mike make amends. But Frances blackmails Danny, threatening to break Mike's heart if she isn't cast as the star.
Moe, Larry and Curly costar as out-of-work actors trying to find jobs thru Danny's and Mike's agency. They perform the "Maharaja" routine, the "Melodrama" sketch, disguise themselves as inept Western Union messengers to invade the agency, and masquerade as gangsters to trick Frances. The film's musical finale begins with the Stooges and 'Brenda & Cobina' performing a hilarious rhumba number, with Curly costumed as Carmen Miranda. *
Production stills show that the Stooges had at least one other scene, unfortunately cut before release.
An early showcase for Ann Miller's dancing talent, she closes the film with an energetic tap performance, as good as anything she later became famous for at MGM.
Look closely and don't blink if you'd like to see Alan Hale Jr. (GILLIGAN's 'Skipper') in one of his first acting roles, a small cameo in the opening minutes.
* Moe, Larry & Shemp appeared with Carmen Miranda on THE COLGATE COMEDY HOUR (Dec. 16, 1951).

Rudy Vallee
Danny Collins

Richard Lane
Mike Armstrong

Rosemary Lane
Frances Lewis

Allen Jenkins
Off-Beat Davis

Ann Miller
Kitty Brown

Larry Fine
Larry

Jerry Howard
Curly

Moe Howard
Moe

Blanche Stewart
Brenda

Elvia Allman
Cobina

Joan Merrill
Herself

Six Hits and a Miss
Singers

Lew Harvey
Zodiac Club patron

Hans Moebus
Zodiac Club patron

Jay Eaton
Zodiac Club patron

Edward Thomas
Zodiac Club bartender

Jack Banta
College boy

Alan Hale Jr.
College boy

George Humbert
Guiseppe

Bess Flowers
Receptionist

Stanley Brown
Jim Talbot

Eddie Laughton
TV studio sound engineer

Gordon De Main
Theatrical producer

Bud Jamison
Lunch counter clerk

Robert Fiske
Lunch counter customer

Armand Wright
Lunch counter cook

Joe McGuinn
Joe, stage manager

Stanley Andrews
James Anderson

Lloyd Whitlock
Skyline Club Maitre d'

Lew Davis
Stagehand

Eddie Fetherston
Stagehand

Bert Howard
'Chappy,' Skyline Club patron

Laura Treadwell
Dowager, Skyline Club patron

Jack Egan
Skyline Club patron

Shep Houghton
Skyline Club patron

Don Ackerman
Dancer

Robert Lock Lorraine
Dancer

Ward Arnold
Dancer

Alex Romero
Dancer

Eddie Searles
Dancer

Sol Haines
Dancer

Billy Benedict
Messenger, scene deleted

Bert Roach
Drunk, scene deleted

Trudy Marson
Sister act singer, scene deleted

Sheila Darcy
Sister act singer, scene deleted

Crauford Kent
Marlow, scene deleted

Walter Soderling
Landlord, scene deleted

Unidentified TIME OUT FOR RHYTHM 1
Zodiac Club patrons

Unidentified TIME OUT FOR RHYTHM 2
2nd Zodiac Club bartender

Unidentified TIME OUT FOR RHYTHM 3
College boys

Unidentified TIME OUT FOR RHYTHM 4
Zodiac Club orchestra

Unidentified TIME OUT FOR RHYTHM 7
Switchboard

Unidentified TIME OUT FOR RHYTHM 8
Booth engineer

Unidentified TIME OUT FOR RHYTHM 9
Lunchcounter

Unidentified TIME OUT FOR RHYTHM 11
Stagehand

Unidentified TIME OUT FOR RHYTHM 12
Skyline Club waiters

Unidentified TIME OUT FOR RHYTHM 14
Skyline Club patrons

Unidentified TIME OUT FOR RHYTHM 15
Skyline Club patrons

Sidney Salkow
Director

Irving Starr
Producer

Bert Granet
Story

Edmund L. Hartmann
Screenplay

Bert Lawrence
Screenplay

Alex Ruben
Original Play

Franz Planer
Director of Photography

Arthur Seid
Film Editor

Lionel Banks
Art Director

P. J. Faulkner
Sound Recording

Morris W. Stoloff
Musical Director

Saul Chaplin
Music

Sammy Cahn
Lyrics

Nico Grigor
Music

LeRoy Prinz
Choreographer

Irene Saltern
Gowns

Bud Brill
Assistant Director

William Castle
Dialogue Director
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