Land without music: Jimmy Durante, Richard Tauber, June Clyde. Home run on the keys: Babe Ruth, Zez Confrey, Byron Gay. Land without music originally produced as a motion picture in 1936. Home run on the keys originally produced as a short film in 1937.
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Land without music (1936 ; 65 min.) / Essex Films presents ; story, Armin Robinson & Fritz Koselka ; adaptation, Rudolph Bernauer ; directed by Walter Forde -- Home run on the keys (1937 ; 10 min.) / Vitaphone presents ; directed by Roy Mack ; written by Cyrus D. Wood.
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Land without music: "In Lucco everyone loves music, singing at any occasion, work can wait and so the state's debt. So the ruling princess bans music. Then singer Carlini returns home. Aided by a journalist and his daughter they fight the proclaim -with music."-- www.imdb.com. Home run on the keys: "Babe Ruth returns from hunting to a cabin shared with musicians Zez Confrey and Byron Gay where he regales them with the story of his famous called shot. With Babe's help, they write a song about baseball which then debuts on a radio show."-- www.imdb.com.
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