Banjo on My Knee (film)

Banjo on My Knee
Film poster
Directed by	John Cromwell
Produced by	Darryl F. Zanuck Nunnally Johnson
Written by	Harry Hamilton (novel)
Screenplay by	Nunnally Johnson
Based on	Banjo on My Knee (1936 novel)
Starring	Barbara Stanwyck Joel McCrea Walter Brennan
Music by	Charles Maxwell
Cinematography	Ernest Palmer
Edited by	Hanson T. Fritch
Distributed by	Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Release dates	December 11, 1936 (1936-12-11)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Banjo on My Knee is a 1936 American musical comedy-drama film directed by John Cromwell.^[1] The film was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording (Edmund H. Hansen).^[2]

Plot

Ernie Holley (Joel McCrea) runs away on his wedding night because he thinks he has killed a wedding guest. His father Newt (Walter Brennan) and bride Pearl (Barbara Stanwyck) find him in New Orleans and persuade him to come home.

Cast

Barbara Stanwyck as Pearl Elliott Holley
Joel McCrea as Ernie Holley
Walter Brennan as Newt Holley
Buddy Ebsen as Buddy
Helen Westley as Grandma
Walter Catlett as Warfield Scott
Tony Martin as Chick Bean (as Anthony Martin)
Katherine DeMille as Leota Long (as Katherine De Mille)
Victor Kilian as Mr. Slade
Minna Gombell as Ruby
Spencer Charters as Judge Tope
Theresa Harris (uncredited) singer on dock

References

↑ "Banjo on My Knee". NY Times. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
↑ "The 9th Academy Awards (1937) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved August 8, 2011.

External links

Banjo on My Knee at the Internet Movie Database
Banjo on My Knee at AllMovie
Banjo on My Knee at the TCM Movie Database
Banjo on My Knee at the American Film Institute Catalog

Films directed by John Cromwell

Close Harmony (1929)
The Dance of Life (1929)
The Mighty (1929)
Street of Chance (1930)
Tom Sawyer (1930)
Scandal Sheet (1931)
Unfaithful (1931)
The Vice Squad (1931)
Rich Man's Folly (1931)
The World and the Flesh (1932)
Sweepings (1933)
Double Harness (1933)
Ann Vickers (1933)
Spitfire (1934)
This Man Is Mine (1934)
Of Human Bondage (1934)
I Dream Too Much (1935)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
To Mary - with Love (1936)
Banjo on My Knee (1936)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Algiers (1938)
Made for Each Other (1939)
In Name Only (1939)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Victory (1940)
So Ends Our Night (1941)
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)
Since You Went Away (1944)
The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
Dead Reckoning (1947)
Night Song (1947)
Caged (1950)
The Company She Keeps (1951)
The Racket (1951)
The Goddess (1958)
The Scavengers (1959)
A Matter of Morals (1961)

Darryl F. Zanuck

Producer

1964 The Visit
1962 The Chapman Report
1962 The Longest Day
1961 The Big Gamble
1961 Sanctuary
1960 Crack in the Mirror
1958 The Roots of Heaven
1957 The Sun Also Rises
1957 Island in the Sun
1956 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
1955 The View from Pompey's Head
1954 The Egyptian
1952 The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952 Viva Zapata!
1951 People Will Talk
1951 David and Bathsheba
1950 All About Eve
1950 No Way Out
1949 Twelve O'Clock High
1949 Pinky
1948 The Snake Pit
1948 Fury at Furnace Creek
1947 Gentleman's Agreement
1946 The Razor's Edge
1944 Winged Victory
1944 Wilson
1944 The Purple Heart
1942 Thunder Birds
1942 This Above All
1942 To the Shores of Tripoli
1942 Sex Hygiene (Short)
1942 Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1941 How Green Was My Valley
1941 A Yank in the R.A.F.
1941 Blood and Sand
1941 The Great American Broadcast
1941 Tobacco Road
1941 Hudson's Bay
1940 The Mark of Zorro
1940 Down Argentine Way
1940 Brigham Young
1940 The Return of Frank James
1940 The Man I Married
1940 Little Old New York
1940 The Grapes of Wrath
1939 The Little Princess
1939 Swanee River
1939 Hollywood Cavalcade
1939 The Rains Came
1939 Stanley and Livingstone
1939 Rose of Washington Square
1939 The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939 Wife, Husband and Friend
1939 Tail Spin
1939 Jesse James
1938 Submarine Patrol
1938 My Lucky Star
1938 Little Miss Broadway
1938 Just Around the Corner
1938 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1938 Always Goodbye
1938 Kentucky Moonshine
1938 International Settlement
1938 Happy Landing
1937 In Old Chicago
1937 Lancer Spy
1937 Thin Ice
1937 Wake Up and Live
1937 Wee Willie Winkie
1937 Slave Ship
1937 Seventh Heaven
1936 Pigskin Parade
1936 Sing, Baby, Sing
1936 Poor Little Rich Girl
1936 The Road to Glory
1936 Under Two Flags
1936 A Message to Garcia
1936 It Had to Happen
1936 The Prisoner of Shark Island
1935 Professional Soldier
1935 The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
1935 Thanks a Million
1935 Metropolitan
1935 The Call of the Wild
1935 Cardinal Richelieu
1935 Les Misérables
1935 Folies Bergère de Paris
1934 The Mighty Barnum
1934 Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934 Born to Be Bad
1934 Looking for Trouble
1934 Moulin Rouge
1933 Blood Money
1933 The Bowery
1933 Ex-Lady
1933 The Working Man'
1933 42nd Street
1933 Parachute Jumper
1932 20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932 Three on a Match
1932 The Cabin in the Cotton
1932 Life Begins
1932 Doctor X
1932 The Rich Are Always with Us
1932 The Man Who Played God
1931 The Public Enemy
1931 Illicit
1931 Little Caesar
1931 The Doorway to Hell
1930 Three Faces East
1929 The Show of Shows
1928 Tenderloin
1927 The Jazz Singer
1927 The First Auto
1927 Old San Francisco

Writer

as Mark Canfield	1960 Crack in the Mirror 1933 Baby Face (story) 1930 Maybe It's Love 1927 The Desired Woman (story)

as Melville Crossman	1944 The Purple Heart (story) 1942 China Girl (story) 1942 Thunder Birds (original story) 1941 A Yank in the R.A.F. (story) 1935 Thanks a Million (story) 1928 State Street Sadie (story) 1928 Tenderloin (story)

as Gregory Rogers	1928 The Midnight Taxi (story) 1925 Three Weeks in Paris (story, screenplay as Darryl Zanuck) 1924 The Lighthouse by the Sea (Rin Tin Tin story) 1924 Find Your Man (Rin Tin Tin story)

as self	1942 Ten Gentlemen from West Point 1940 The Great Profile (story – uncredited) 1938 Alexander's Ragtime Band (contributing writer – uncredited) 1937 This Is My Affair (story – uncredited) 1935 G Men (story) 1935 Folies Bergère de Paris (contributing writer – uncredited) 1933 Lady Killer (story – uncredited) 1932 The Dark Horse (story) 1931 Little Caesar (story – uncredited) 1930 The Life of the Party 1929 Say It with Songs (story) 1929 Madonna of Avenue A (story) 1929 Hardboiled Rose (story) 1928 My Man (story) 1928 Noah's Ark (story) 1927 Good Time Charley (story) 1927 The First Auto (story) 1927 Old San Francisco 1927 Tracked by the Police (Rin Tin Tin story) 1926 The Better 'Ole (screenplay) 1926 Across the Pacific (adaptation) 1926 Footloose Widows 1926 The Social Highwayman 1926 The Little Irish Girl (adaptation) 1926 The Caveman (scenario) 1925 Hogan's Alley 1925 Red Hot Tires 1925 A Broadway Butterfly

Executive Producer

1970 Tora! Tora! Tora! (uncredited)
1956 The King and I (uncredited)
1941 Wild Geese Calling
1938 Kentucky
1936 Banjo on My Knee
1936 Reunion
1936 Ramona

People

Virginia Fox (wife)
Richard D. Zanuck (son)
Dean Zanuck (grandson)

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