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Fashions Of 1934

1934, Movie, NR, 80 mins

Fashions Of 1934: Review

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Another fast-paced, thinly plotted musical comedy boasting the magnificent choreography of Busby Berkeley, FASHIONS OF 1934 stars William Powell as a fashion designer who has a reputation for stealing other designers' creations and marketing them as his own. When Parisian designers begin barring Powell's spies from their shows and salons, Powell goes himself, taking along his assistants, Bette Davis and Frank McHugh, the latter smuggling a miniature camera in the head of his cane. In Paris, they meet Hugh Herbert, a California feather merchant who is trying to get designers to use more plumes in their clothes, and they also run into struggling songwriter Philip Reed and Verree Teasdale, Powell's former girl friend (whom Davis has begun to supplant). After discovering that Teasdale is posing as a Russian noblewoman and that she is engaged to Paris' most famous fashion designer, Reginald Owen, Powell blackmails Teasdale into getting him into a showing of her fiance's latest creations. After he and his assistants are caught red-handed, Powell threatens to expose Teasdale in the press, and Owen suggests that Powell use Owen's designs, Humbert's feathers, and Reed's music to . . . put on a show. Luckily, the show features dance numbers by Berkeley. leave a comment
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