Goldie Gets Along (1933)

User Rating:

4.5/10   

Director:

Malcolm St. Clair

Writers:

Hawthorne Hurst (book)
William A. Drake (screenplay)

Release Date:

27 January 1933 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Plot Keywords:

Uncle Niece Relationship | Feminine Wiles | Engagement | Rabbit's Foot | Aunt Niece Relationship

Cast

Lili Damita	...	Goldie LaFarge
Charles Morton	...	Bill Tobin
Sam Hardy	...	Sam Muldoon
Nat Pendleton	...	Motorcycle Officer Cassidy
Lita Chevret	...	Marie Gardner
Arthur Hoyt	...	Mayor Silas C. Simms
Henry Fink	...	Bob Flynn
Bradley Page	...	Frank Hawthorne
Lee Moran	...	Sam Kaplan

Also Known As:

Beautifully Trimmed (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

68 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | French

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Photophone Recording)

Certification:

USA:Approved (PCA #1502-R, 11 September 1935 for re-release) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:TV-G (TV rating)

Company:

J.G. Bachmann Productions

As bad as they come

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There is virtually nothing to recommend about this stale, unfunny, unromantic romantic comedy from RKO. The problem starts with star Lili Damita, who clearly is being groomed here as a junior grade Marlene Dietrich. Unfortunately, she is a strictly one dimensional simulacrum, and her performance as a misbehaving French girl trying to stay out of trouble in small town Springfield is dreadful. Equally inept is the romantic partner she's given, Charles Morton, who turns his quiet, unassuming character into the cinematic equivalent of a corpse. Boring doesn't begin to describe him. As always, it's good fun to see Nat Pendleton--here cast as a motorcycle cop--but his role is too small to outweigh the slow moving horror show that is Goldie Gets Along. Proof that not everything from the '30s is a classic--or even adequate.