Fine Art of Boxing, The (No Stooge in the Ring)
Bickering best friends Happy and Pete (Ted Healy and Nat Pendleton), while working at Mr. Scurry's (Charles Lane) cab company, dream of hitting the big time playing clarinet and piccolo in a dance orchestra. They may have hit their break by discovering singer Ollie Watts, whose original tunes, derived from middle American folklore, strike a chord with listeners.
Ollie falls in love with Margaret Jones, who is actually socialite Margaret Wallace, the daughter of Happy's and Pete's World War I commander Col. Wallace. Coincidentally, playing at Wallace's society ball is another member of the old Army company, the famous orchestra leader Ted Lowry (Ted Lewis). When Ollie's song is stolen by unscrupulous agent Mr. Simmons and becomes a # 1 radio hit, Ollie falls into depression and hits skid row. Happy and Pete enlist the help of Margaret and Lowry to find Ollie, and take Simmons to court to prove the real composer.

Ted Lewis & His Orchestra
Ted Lowry & His Orchestra

Virginia Bruce
Margaret Wallace

Harry Stockwell
Ollie Watts

Ted Healy
Happy

Nat Pendleton
Piccolo Pete

Addison Richards
Colonel Lowell Wallace

Donald Cook
Don Trevor

George 'Spanky' McFarland
Billy Lowry

Robert McWade
Judge

Robert Gleckler
Mr. Simmons

Henry Kolker
Simmon's attorney

Lew Harvey
Simmon's burly

Jack Cheatham
Simmon's burly

Charles Lane
Mr. Scurry

Billy Gilbert
Oswald Carroll, sneezer

Gene Morgan
Radio MC

Herman Bing
Hans Bergenspitz, yodeler

Bill Dooley
Harry Opson, imitator

Florence Gill
Esther Sykes, chicken impersonator

Rolfe Sedan
Violinist

Ferdinand Gottschalk
Armand de Valerie

Edward Cooper
Wallace butler

William Newell
Tracy

May Beatty
Miss Doyle

Tyler Brooke
Saxophonist / 'Dentist'

Fred Santley
Xylophonist / 'Dressmaker'

Bert Roach
Drummer / 'Traveling salesman'

Otto Fries
Cymbal player / 'Riveter'

Richard Tucker
Trumpeter / 'Banker'

David Horsley
Pianist

Sherry Hall
Oboist

Muggsy Spanier
Himself, band member

Douglas Williams
Band member

Edward Earle
Major

Jack Raymond
Jewish soldier

Esther Michelson
Jewish woman

Harry 'Zoup' Welsh
Italian soldier

Minerva Urecal
Italian woman

Jerry Sloane
Soldier

Ernie Adams
Soldier

Al Williams
Soldier

Phil Tead
Soldier

Ernie Alexander
Soldier

Perry Ivins
Soldier

Wally Maher
Soldier

William Quinn
Soldier

Earl Eby
Soldier

Don Brodie
Soldier

Jack Mulhall
Soldier

Johnny Arthur
Man in audience

Lester Dorr
Man in audience

Dorothy Vernon
Woman in audience

Brooks Benedict
Man in audience

Red Pearson
Man in audience

Harold Miller
Party guest

Dennis O'Keefe
Party guest

Larry Steers
Party guest

Ralph T. Brooks
Party guest

Frank Darien
Pawnbroker

James Donlan
Bartender

Edgar Dearing
Police officer

Monte Vandergrift
Police officer

Henry Sylvester
Bailiff

Maidel Turner
Chubby woman

Nat Carr
Tailor

Freddie Sanborn
Comedian

Charles 'Snowball' Whittier
Himself

Sally Conlin
Margaret Wallace as a child

Frank Marlowe
Taxi driver, scene deleted

Paul Sloane
Director
Lucien Hubbard
Producer

Paul Sloane
Screenplay

Ralph Spence
Screenplay

Victor Mansfield
Screenplay

Frank E. Hull
Film Editor

Charles Edgar Schoenbaum
Photography

Cedric Gibbons
Art Director

William A. Horning
Associate Art Director

Edwin B. Willis
Associate Art Director

Douglas Shearer
Recording Director

Leonid Raab
Orchestrator

Edward Ward
Musical Score

Walter Donaldson
Music

Burton Lane
Music

Herbert Stothart
Music

L. Wolfe Gilbert
Music and Lyrics

Albert Von Tilzer
Music and Lyrics

Dave Dreyer
Music and Lyrics

Harry MacPherson
Music and Lyrics

Ted Fio Rito
Music and Lyrics

Andrew Sterling
Lyrics

Gus Kahn
Lyrics

Ned Washington
Lyrics

Harold Adamson
Lyrics

Chester Hale
Dances

Dolly Tree
Wardrobe

Harry Sharrock
Assistant Director
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