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Glorifying The American Girl

1930, Movie, NR, 96 mins

Glorifying The American Girl: Review

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Mary Eaton is a chorus girl with an internal struggle: does she want the love of Edward Crandall or the love of teeming millions as she performs in the Ziegfeld Follies? The thin plot line is really just an excuse for the production numbers, songs, and sketches contained in this film, along with Eddie Cantor's marvelous tailor bit, and a host of celebrity "first nighters" dutifully noted by the offscreen narrator. The only film Broadway mogul Florenz Ziegfeld ever produced, he had hoped it would be the first all-singing, all-talking film. But due to production delays, including sound problems and Ziegfeld's financial notoriety, the dream was not to be. The film suffers from being shot at Paramount's Astoria, Long Island, studio, for superior sound equipment was already being used in California. Songs include "What Wouldn't I Do For That Man" (E.Y. Harburg, Jay Gorney), "Blue Skies" (Irving Berlin), "I'm Just a Vagabond Lover" (Leon Zimmerman, Rudy Vallee), "Baby Face" (Harry Akst, Benny Davis), "At Sundown," "Beautiful Changes," "Sam the Old Accordion Man," and "There Must Be Someone Waiting For Me" (Walter Donaldson). leave a comment
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