Naughty But Nice

Jun 23, 1939

1h 29m

★ 6.2

The "Oomph" Girl's Greatest Tri"Oomph"

Overview

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.

Genres

Comedy

Music

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

Naughty But Nice Trailers

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Cast

Zelda Manion

Ann Sheridan

Professor Donald Hardwick

Dick Powell

Linda McKay

Gale Page

Aunt Martha Hogan

Helen Broderick

Eddie

Ronald Reagan

Joe Dirk

Allen Jenkins

Aunt Penelope Hardwick

Zasu Pitts

Killer

Maxie Rosenbloom

Allie Gray

Jerry Colonna

Stanislaus Pysinski

Luis Alberni

Aunt Annabella Hardwick

Vera Lewis

Aunt Henrietta Hardwick

Elizabeth Dunne

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