A selfish user of women, puts the stories of his romances into song, turning old personal love letters that belong to a girl he met into lyrics, and attempts to capitalize on the death by accident(which he was partially responsible for) of his partner. Features the technicolor musical sequence “The Woman in the Shoe”.
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Interesting film. No, not a great film, but fascinating. Cliff Edwards is by far the best actor in the film. Ethelind Terry is like a menacing doll and she doesn't quite make a palpable impression. The role in the film actually dashed her chances in film which is sad as she was a fine stage performer. But my question is this…who is the blond at 36:30 and 37:06? She's unearthly beautiful!
This was one of the earliest motion picture musicals and, I think, one of the earliest pictures to use color film…at least it was used during the extravagant stage performances. An interesting and entertaining film, overall.
This film didn't do much for either of the two leads. Kaley must be the most obscure lead of an early big budget musical and in a few years Marion Schilling was playing in the notorious serial "The Clutching Hand".
When was colour film invented then? I didn't read the info beforehand – just dived into it. What a surprize!
I've got to say, upon the second viewing of this film, it's actually pretty good in many respects! Unfortunately the lead actor was lacking skill, but the supporting players did a fairly good job. The music in the film was quite good and the color sequence with the Busby Berkeley-type choreography was ahead of its time…let's not forget this was made in 1930! Perhaps with a cast of actors who had real star appeal it would have played better, but I'm still a fan.