Hollywood certainly had some bizarre party's during its heyday, and many of them have been documented through photography or film for posterity. This daytime party, filmed in Technicolor in this MGM musical short on Catalina, has a pirate theme and features some great big band music as well as a few wonderful musical numbers. Of course there are the necessary shots of movie stars, and this is one time where you get to see Randolph Scott and Cary Grant without female dates sitting at a table together giving an interesting impression of what was really going on and what has been rumored over the past 70 something years. I have to give this one a high rating on a camp quotient, because overall in this series of short, it is downright the silliest. It's sort of interesting to know that while there were many people still starving as a result of the depression still in a transitional ending period, that a major movie studio would show such a frivolous lifestyle still in existence. But perhaps that's what made the depression palatable. It's also great to hear "We're in the Money" sung tongue in cheek as part of a treasure hunter, and what they do find is glittery, but then they discover that it ain't gold.
Review of Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
