One Sheet
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Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures
Producer: David Butler
Director: David Butler
Assistant Director: Fred A. Fleck
Screenplay: James V. Kern
Original Story: David Butler and James V. Kern
Special Material: Monte Brice, Andrew Bennison and R.T.M. Scott
Musical Director: Roy Webb
Musical Arrangements: George Dunning
Music and Lyrics: Jimmy McHugh and Johnny Mercer
Cinematography: Frank Redman
Special Effects: Vernon L. Walker
Art Direction: Van Nest Polglase
Associate Art Director: Carroll Clarke
Gowns: Edward Stevenson
Set Decoration: Darrell Silvera
Recorder: Earl A Wolcott
Special Sound and Musical Effects: Sonovox
Editor: Irene Morra
Running Time: 97 minutes
Copyright Number: LP10334, November 2, 1940
Cast:
Kay Kyser: Himself
Peter Lorre: Professor Fenninger
Boris Karloff: Judge Mainwaring
Bela Lugosi: Prince Saliano
Helen Parrish: Janis Bellacrest
Dennis O’Keefe: Chuck Deems
Alma Kruger: Aunt Margo
Kay Kyser’s Orchestra: Themselves. Featuring Ginny Simms, Harry Babbitt, Ish Kabibble, and Sully Mason
Joseph Eggenton: Jurgen
Leonard Mudie: The real Professor Karl Fenniger
Louise Currie: Marion
Mimi Montaye: Mimi
Mary Martha Wood:
Joan Warner: Joan
Mary Bovard:
Dorothy Moore: Penny
Jane Patten: Jane
Joseph North: Servant
Frank Mills: Taxi driver
Bess Flowers: Lady in taxi
Larry McGarth: Apartment complainer
Jeff Corey: Mr. Corey
Eleanor Lawson: Ms. Gaby Lawson
Eugenia Raffe: French Maid
Beulah Parkington: Mother
Frank O’Connor: Apartment Responder
Mary Bovard: Mary
Jeanne Houser: Jean
Richard Kipling: Scriptman
William Telaak: Mac
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Trenton Evening Times, September 20, 1940
Motion Picture Herald Magazine
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Cleveland Plain Dealer, November 2, 1940
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New York Times, November 15th, 1940
You have really got to be fond of Kay Kyser and his Kollege of Musical Knowledge band in order to get any pleasure out of the show at the Roxy this week. For the professor demeritus and his boys (and girl) moved in there yesterday to appear not only on the stage in one of their quiz sessions, but also upon the screen in RKO’s “You’ll Find Out.” In the former, they’re on their own and consequently responsible for their actions; but in the latter they’re all mixed up with a lot of movie actors and a plot, so it’s hard to say who should take the blame.
For “You’ll Find Out” is one of those silly shudder-comedies, in which Mr. Kyser and his hep cats appear as the innocent bystanders who naturally become involved in an eerie attempt at murder in a forbidding old Massachusetts house. They have, it develops, arrived there to play at a deb party, but Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Peter Lorre have arrived before them, determined to bump off the guest of honor and—ah-ha!—obtain her inheritance. So the party is quite a cozy shindig, with seances and mysterious accidents and occasional renditions by the band to keep it properly confused.
Apparently the script writers were scared out of their wits by their own ideas, for the dialogue and plot developments indicate that little was devoted to them. With three of the most calculating villains vis-a-vis Mr. Kyser in one film, you would think that something more original than shrieks in the night and sliding panels and hidden passageways could have been contrived to confound them. Some of the incidents are amusing, mainly because of Mr. Kyser’s frightened-rabbit attitude when in the midst of them. But, on the whole, the picture is just routine and dull.
YOU’LL FIND OUT, screen play by James V. Kern; based on a story by Mr. Kern and David Butler; produced and directed by David Butler for RKO-Radio. At the Roxy.
Kay Kyser . . . . . Himself
Professor Fenninger . . . . . Peter Lorre
Judge Mainwaring . . . . . Boris Karloff
Chuck Deems . . . . . Dennis O’Keefe
Prince Saliano . . . . . Bela Lugosi
Janis Bellacrest . . . . . Helen Parrish
Aunt Margo . . . . . Alma Kruger
Jurgen . . . . . Joseph Eggenton
Ginny Simms, Harry Babbitt, Ish Kabibble, Sully Mason.
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Dallas Morning News, November 19, 1940
The Times-Picayune, November 20, 1940
Omaha World Herald , November 20, 1940
The Times-Picayune, November 21, 1940
Daily Illinois, 21 November 1940
Mount Vernon Hawk-Eye, November 23, 1940
Boston Herald, November 27, 1940
Photoplay, December 1940
Springfield Republican, December 4, 1940
Seattle Daily Times, December 4, 1940
Milwaukee Sentinel, December 6, 1940
Dallas Morning News, December 13, 1940
Dallas Morning News, December 14, 1940
Daily Illinois State Journal, December 20, 1940
Montreal Gazette, December 23, 1940
Bellingham Herald, December 24, 1940
New Film
Kyser and Some Bogey Men in Stanley’s
“You’ll Find Out
By Harold W. Cohen
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Sacremento Bee, January 22, 1941
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Daily Illinois State Journal, March 16, 1941
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