Hitting a New High
4.9
“Thrill to the Voice that makes Swing Song Sounds..Hear Her Trilling Those Golden Arias!”
A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges her Manhattan debut by way of Africa.
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Cast
19 people
Lily Pons
Suzette
Also in
I Dream Too Much
That Girl from Paris
Jack Oakie
Corny Davis
Known for
The Great Dictator
Lover Come Back
Raoul Walsh
Van Nest Polglase
Jesse L Lasky
Robert Harari
Also in
The Murder Game
Échec au roi
Edward Everett Horton
Lucius B. Blynn
Known for
The Bullwinkle Show
Top Hat
Maxwell Shane
J. Roy Hunt
Samuel J Briskin
John Howard
Jimmy James
Known for
The Philadelphia Story
Lost Horizon
Gertrude Purcell
Raoul Walsh Director · John Twist Screenplay Gertrude Purcell Screenplay
Worldwide gross $488K · Budget $727K · United States release December 24, 1937
Box office
Budget
$727,000
Worldwide gross
$488,000
Gross vs. budget
0.7×
Production
RKO Radio Pictures
Production
RKO
Production · Distribution
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · December 24, 1937
Theatrical
France
April 6, 1938 · Theatrical
Netherlands
June 10, 1938
Portugal
April 25, 1938
Sweden
March 26, 1938
Uruguay
April 30, 1938
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