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George White's 1935 Scandals

1935, Movie, NR, 83 mins

George White's 1935 Scandals: Review

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Hot on the heels of the previous year's GEORGE WHITE'S SCANDALS, they rushed this one before the cameras, and it suffered the fate that most sequels suffer--it wasn't as good as the first one. This time, White and Roberti take a holiday in Florida to rest up after having a smashing success with a revue in New York, and, on their way down to the Sunshine State, they stop in Georgia where they see a show advertised as "White's Scandals." Wondering what that's all about, they soon learn it's a silly melange put together by Sparks, whose name is also White. Faye is the star of the show and impresses White so much that he offers her a job in his next New York production. Her aunt, Emma Dunn, finagles a job for James Dunn in the show as well. Next thing he knows, White has hired a coterie and must take Sparks and Judge along with him as well. They all go back to New York and the new show is a smash. Everything's just jake until Powell comes along and vamps Dunn away from Faye. Dunn and Powell are seen hitting the high spots around the city, and soon enough Faye decides that she's not going to sit and wait for Dunn, so she begins to turn around, too. Their work suffers, so they are fired and exit in different directions. Aunt Jane (Dunn) comes to New York and learns what's happened. She and White begin looking for the two missing kids and find them through the aid of Rubin, a booking agent. They return to the show, meet again, and decide that they want to spend the rest of their lives together. It's mostly notable for Powell's short but effective debut. She was a revelation in tap dancing and Fox missed the boat by not signing her to a contract. She went to MGM and became an enormous star for the next decade. Due to the Depression, costs were kept down on the picture, so it didn't have nearly the production values of the first SCANDALS. A pleasant trifle but hardly as good as many other films of the era, it had the problem of Mr. White's attempting to be all things to all people by producing, directing, choreographing and co-starring in the picture. His ego got in the way of his taste. Musical numbers: "Oh, I Didn't Know" (sung by Alice Faye), "According to the Moonlight" (Jack Yellen, Herb Magidson, Joseph Meyer), "I Was Born Too Late" (Yellen, Meyer), "You Belong to Me" (Yellen, Cliff Friend, sung by Faye), "It's an Old Southern Custom" (Yellen, Meyer, sung by Faye), "I Got Shoes, You Got Shoesies," "Hunkadola" (Yellen, Friend, Meyer), and "It's Time to Say Goodnight" (Friend, Meyer). leave a comment
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