One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937)

Academy Awards, USA 1938

Winner Oscar	Best Music, Score Charles Previn (head of department) No composer credit.
Nominee Oscar	Best Picture
	Best Writing, Original Story Hanns Kräly
	Best Sound, Recording Homer G. Tasker (Universal SSD)
	Best Film Editing Bernard W. Burton

Universal
Directed by Henry Koster
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Universal Vault Collection)

An unemployed trombonist stalks symphony conductor Leopold Stokowski at one of his concerts hoping to get a job. Instead, he gets thrown out on his ear. He finds a purse full of money on the sidewalk, but is unable to find the owner. He uses the money to pay his rent. He tells his teenage daughter Deanna Durbin he earned the money by working for Stokowski. She eventually learns the truth and returns the money to a wealthy patron of the arts, whom she talks into sponsoring a new orchestra consisting entirely of unemployed musicians. The patron flees to Europe, leaving her husband to deal with the problem. Deanna tries and fails to recruit Stokowski to conduct the new orchestra, so breaks into his mansion with the entire orchestra! Stokowski is inspired by their performance, unable to control his arms and breaks into frenzied conduction. Hilarious. Durbin is sickly sweet. Unbearable.