Twenty Million Sweethearts

{{short description|1934 film by Ray Enright}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Twenty Million Sweethearts | image = Twenty million sweethearts.jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = Ray Enright | writer = Paul Finder Moss<br/>Jerry Wald | starring = Pat O'Brien<br/>Dick Powell<br/>Ginger Rogers | music = Harry Warren | cinematography = Sidney Hickox | editing = Clarence Kolster | distributor = First National Pictures<br/>Warner Bros. Pictures | released = {{Film date|1934|05|26}} | runtime = 89 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $202,000<ref name="warners">{{cite journal |last=Glancy |first=H. Mark |title=Warner Bros Film Grosses, 1921–51: The William Schaefer Ledger |journal=Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television |year=1995 |volume=15 |page=15 |doi=10.1080/01439689508604551}}</ref> |gross=$1,213,000<ref name="warners"/> }}

'''''Twenty Million Sweethearts''''' is a 1934 American Pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Ray Enright and starring Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, and the Mills Brothers. The film was remade in 1949 as ''My Dream Is Yours''.

==Plot== {{more plot|date=April 2026}} Agent Russell Edward "Rush" Blake is able to promote the singing tenor waiter Buddy Clayton as a major radio star, while Buddy's wife Peggy Cornell loses out. In the end, Peggy does not lose Buddy to his "twenty million sweethearts" – his female fans.

==Cast== * Pat O'Brien as Russell Edward "Rush" Blake * Dick Powell as Buddy Clayton * Ginger Rogers as Peggy Cornell * Ted Fio Rito as himself * Allen Jenkins as Uncle Pete * Grant Mitchell as Chester A. Sharpe * Joseph Cawthorn as Mr. Herbert "Herbie" Brokman * Joan Wheeler as Marge, the Receptionist * Henry O'Neill as Lemuel Tappan * Johnny Arthur as Norma Hanson's Secretary * The Mills Brothers as themselves * The Radio Rogues as themselves * George Chandler as Johnny Klinger, radio columnist (uncredited)

==Music== The film features the well-known song "I'll String Along with You" by Harry Warren and Al Dubin.

==Reception== The film was considered a box-office disappointment for Warner Bros.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Churchill |first=Douglas W. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1934/11/25/archives/taking-a-look-at-the-record-hollywood-consults-the-boxoffice-scores.html |title=Taking A Look at the Record |date=November 25, 1934 |work=The New York Times |id={{ProQuest|101193306}} |url-access=subscription}}</ref> According to studio records, it earned $821,000 domestically and $392,000 overseas.<ref name="warners"/>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{IMDb title|0025920}} * {{TCMDb title|2516}} * {{AFI film|4745}}

Category:1934 films Category:1934 musical comedy films Category:American musical comedy films Category:American black-and-white films Category:1934 English-language films Category:Films directed by Ray Enright Category:First National Pictures films Category:Warner Bros. films Category:1934 American films Category:English-language musical comedy films