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3	''She Shall Have Music'' is a British romantic musical comedy made in 1935, mostly as a film vehicle for bandleader Jack Hylton (the British equivalent of Paul Whiteman), featuring American actress/singer June Clyde as the leading lady, Brian Lawrance as her romantic lead and Claude Dampier as an eccentric inventor.
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5	The plot (if you can call it that way) has Hylton's band touring around Europe before boarding a cruise, where they will broadcast from the sea. The owner's son becomes infatuated by Jack's new singer, but becomes repulsed when he finds out she's part of a jazz band. The cruise is then shangaied in an attempt to get Hylton to broadcast aboard another ship.
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7	This film was part of a number of cheaply-made musicals made by British studios during the 1930s in response to Hollywood material, often starring bandleaders such as Henry Hall, (Bert) Ambrose and even American jack-of-all-trades Charles "Buddy" Rogers. However, ''She Shall Have Music'' was the only one the achieve success across the Atlantic, coinciding with Hylton's brief stint in the U.S.
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10	* BusbyBerkeleyNumber: The introduction number is inspired on the Berkeley style then in vogue. First we see a jig-saw game featuring the band, the pieces being assembled by a number of chorus girls to the tune of "The Band that Jack Built".
11	* TheCastShowOff: Hylton's Austrian-born saxophonist Freddie Schweitzer (appropriately nicknamed "The Clown") is first featured as an employee of the cruise convincing Jack to hire him, playing a sax and a clarinet at the same time... while riding an unicycle... ''balancing a 'cello with his nose'' (legend says that he once balanced a '''bass fiddle''' during a performance in Paris).
12	* GrandFinale: The band returns to London by the end of the film, their performance featuring June Clyde's and Brian Lawrance's characters tying the knot at the end.
13	* TheMusical: About half of the film features musical numbers, mostly written for the movie, although the "12th Street Rag" (1914) and the "Hylton Stomp" (1932) are also briefly featured.
14	* NoPlotNoProblem: As with many British musicals from the 1930s, the plot is mostly irrelevant.

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