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A record-setting film starring America's great-voiced chanteuse of the airwaves, Smith; the picture cost more than $2 million to make, more than any previous musical film, and it did the worst box-office business of any film up to that time during the first week of its release--this despite the star's popularity with middle America through the media of radio and personal appearances, which led all the major studios to compete for her maiden film and drove up the cost of production. Tragedy expert Hurst's plot has the booming Smith as a simple rustic who becomes a radio star, even though she prefers domesticity down on the farm. She falls hard for cityslicker Scott,...