June Moon

Ring Lardner, Jr. collaborated with George S. Kaufman on this satire about wannabe songwriters and performers in New York's Tin Pan Alley in the late 1920s. The story concerns a naive Schenectady shipping clerk named Fred who comes to Manhattan withdreams of becoming a lyricist, and how he befriends a one-hit wonder composer and meets the girl of his dreams. Susan Sarandon, Estelle Parsons, Lee Meredith, Burt Shevelove and Kirk Browning star; with a cameo by Stephen Sondheim. 90 min. Standard;Soundtrack: English.