WHEN'S YOUR BIRTHDAY (1937) Joe E. Brown, Marian Marsh & Fred Keating | Comedy, Sport | B&W

When's Your Birthday? is a 1937 American romantic comedy film directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Joe E. Brown. While original prints of this film had a cartoon sequence in Technicolor directed by Bob Clampett and Leon Schlesinger, most surviving prints (including the Internet Archive) have the sequence in black-and-white.

SYNOPSIS
Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.

Dustin Willoughby (Joe E. Brown) is a prizefighter and believer in astrology who only wins when the stars are in alignment.

CAST & CREW
Joe E. Brown as Dustin Willoughby
Marian Marsh as Jerry Grant
Fred Keating as Larry Burke
Edgar Kennedy as Mr. Henry Basscombe
Maude Eburne as Mrs. Fanny Basscombe
Suzanne Kaaren as Diane Basscombe
Margaret Hamilton as Mossy - the Maid
Minor Watson as James J. Regan
Frank Jenks as Lefty - Regan's Henchman
Don Rowan - Steve as Regan's Henchman
Granville Bates as Judge O'Day
Charles Judels as Acropolis, the Headwaiter
Corky as Zodiac, the Dog

Directed by Harry Beaumont
Written by Harvey Gates, Malcolm Stuart Boylan, Samuel M. Pyke
Screenplay by Harry Clork, H.W. Hanemann, Richard Macaulay
Based on the play by John Frederick Ballard
Produced by Robert Harris, David L. Loew
Cinematography George Robinson
Edited by Jack Ogilvie
Music by Sam Wineland, John Leipold, Marlin Skiles
Production company David L. Loew Productions
Distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Release date February 19, 1937
Running time 75 minutes
Country United States
Languages English, Spanish