100 Men and a Girl Deanna Durbin and Leopold Stokowski

In this 1937 comedy with music, Deanna Durbin persuades worldfamous conductor Leopold Stokowki to conduct an orchestra of 100 unemployed musicians that includes her trombonist father, played by Adolphe Menjou. We see the opening credits, during which Stokowski conducts a much abridged Tchaikovsky 5th Symphony finale, and the closing scene where the unemployed musicians and Deanna bring the movie to a close with a delightfully spontaneous and unrehearsed Verdi number. (With acknowledgements to the DVD release in The Deanna Durbin