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1 March 1930 (USA) morePlot:
A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are. full summary | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Fantastic Effort, Bizarre Results moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Harry Richman | ... | Harry Raymond |
| Joan Bennett | ... | Dolores Fenton |
| James Gleason | ... | James 'Jimmy' Tierney |
| Aileen Pringle | ... | Mrs. Teddy Von Rennsler |
| Lilyan Tashman | ... | Goldie Devere |
| Purnell Pratt | ... | George Barnes |
| Richard Tucker | ... | Fenway Brooks |
| Eddie Kane | ... | Bob Wagner |
 | George Irving | ... | Dr. Blair |
| Sidney Franklin | ... | Schmidt |
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Since _Movie Mirror_ did a fine job of outlining the movie, I won't go into the plot too much. But there are some odd bits I'd like to comment on:
Everything seems to happen quickly in this movie, with the characters' lives changing every few scenes. Harry and Dolores get engaged to each other almost immediately. Harry instantly becomes a star, and wastes no time in starting up his own restaurant/club. Then, before you know it, he goes blind from some bad whisky. Ahh, to be amongst the beautiful people...
The stage sets in the bigger production numbers are beautiful, especially during the title song, where the backdrop of bobbing buildings is quite surreal. Just imagine what it would have been like, to be in the audience at that moment.
Overall, it's fairly easy to tell that this is an early talkie movie. The actress playing Dolores occasionally looks like she's acting in silent pictures. The shallow plot is strung out by a bad case of "excessive musical number-itis". And Harry's voice becomes increasingly difficult to tolerate/take seriously. But it's a good time, and an interesting point in the history of cinema.