On the Avenue

Picked this up not having heard of this film and it was rather good. I thought it was rather odd not having seen it as it was one of Irving Berlin's. It turns out that it is not one of his best known scores although, 'I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm' and 'Slumming on Park Avenue' are surely good enough. The dance routines were not some of the most famous ones but they are amazing, especially early on and some of the costumes wonderful and certainly rather sexy. The plot of course is silly but we never had to worry because the acting is great and the music and dancing almost never stops. Then we have the Ritz Brothers, I thought their acts would not be too good but they were splendid, not quite The Marx Brothers but not bad at all, there really fast jokes and funny dancing made me smile. I was also surprised to see that Cora Witherspoon was so good with her quirky talking way and odd dance turns as she will be with W C Fields in The Bank Dick (1940).