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Melody in Spring, the 1934 Norman Z. McLeod romantic love triangle musical ("Love is in the air!"; "The musical tonic for Spring Fever!") starring Lanny Ross (billed as "Introducing Lanny Ross"; "Radio's 'Showboat' Singing Sensation"), Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, Ann Sothern (in her third credited movie role!), and George Meeker. Note that this is a forgotten movie, but its star, Lanny Ross, has a most unusual background. He was born Lancelot Patrick Ross, and he was both a champion track athlete and a talented glee club singer at Yale University. He was studying law at Yale, and was slated to run at the Olympics, but he withdrew from the 1928 Olympics so that he could sing full time, and he never did practice law, and instead, he became a major radio singer in 1928, and in 1931, he started singing on the Maxwell House Show Boat radio program, and by 1934, he was voted the second best singer of popular songs in the entire U.S. (second only to Bing Crosby!). Naturally, that led him to movies, and this movie was his first, with a plot that only served to allow him to sing many songs. But while he made a few more movies, his first love was radio, and he stuck with that. He enlisted in the Army in World War II, becoming a major. He passed away in 1988 at the age of 82.
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Important Added Info: Note that this poster does not have a company name at the bottom, but it very much looks like it was printed by "Leader Press". In the 1930s, a constant headache for theaters was being sure of having movie posters for their current releases. Often, the posters would travel with the actual film prints, and sometimes the theater before them might have forgotten to include the poster, it might have been defaced or torn, etc. If a theater didn't have posters, it was very frustrating! Several companies began in the 1930s (Leader Press, the "other company", Woolever Press, etc) that made posters of their own for new releases, and they would provide a back up for theaters in case they didn't get a studio issued poster. Often the posters from these companies (with the exception of the "other company") were silk-screen posters, but they were often quite attractive, and virtually always had a completely different design from the regular studio issued poster. It is an absolute fact that posters from these companies are far more rare than the regular studio issued posters. It is also a certainty that these posters were issued when the movies were first released. In fact, they were created PRIOR to the movie's release, so that they could serve as teaser or advance posters (theaters rarely got the studio issued posters before receiving the actual movie). We have located an extremely rare original advertisement for Leader Press posters which clearly states that they were available to theaters a full two weeks prior to each movie's release. Also note that this one-sheet measures 28" x 40 1/2". Please do not bid on this poster thinking it is 27" x 41".

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