In the last stages of RKO Studios the place came out with a nice horse racing film and I'm a sucker for those. A now grownup Margaret O'Brien stars as the girl who owns and trains a filly who runs and wins the Kentucky Derby.
Of course as in all of these films the road to the Kentucky Derby is not an easy one for O'Brien and her aunt Charlotte Greenwood, nor for the man who trains the winner Walter Brennan. Greenwood and Brennan have a love/hate relationship, he trained for her husband and over a misunderstanding about who was to enter a certain horse in the Kentucky Derby they've been battling for 30 years.
Two men come into O'Brien's life, fellow horse owner John Lupton, scion of one of the great racing families and band-leader Byron Palmer who wants O'Brien for a vocalist. I think she made the right decision his kind of big band music was definitely passé at that point. Now had she been a rock and roller, that would have been different.
At the time Glory was made only one filly, Regret in 1915 had ever won the Kentucky Derby. It's a sports legend at the time and lovers of horse racing were familiar with Regret. Since then two other fillies have won the Derby.
Still Glory is a fine racing film even if real life has made the plot a bit obsolete.
Of course as in all of these films the road to the Kentucky Derby is not an easy one for O'Brien and her aunt Charlotte Greenwood, nor for the man who trains the winner Walter Brennan. Greenwood and Brennan have a love/hate relationship, he trained for her husband and over a misunderstanding about who was to enter a certain horse in the Kentucky Derby they've been battling for 30 years.
Two men come into O'Brien's life, fellow horse owner John Lupton, scion of one of the great racing families and band-leader Byron Palmer who wants O'Brien for a vocalist. I think she made the right decision his kind of big band music was definitely passé at that point. Now had she been a rock and roller, that would have been different.
At the time Glory was made only one filly, Regret in 1915 had ever won the Kentucky Derby. It's a sports legend at the time and lovers of horse racing were familiar with Regret. Since then two other fillies have won the Derby.
Still Glory is a fine racing film even if real life has made the plot a bit obsolete.