This 1929 Harry Beaumont-directed movie won an Oscar for Best Picture at the 1928-29 Oscar ceremonies. It features the songs by Nacio Herb Brown (composer) and Arthur Freed (Lyrics) and they both have small parts in the movie.
This is a fairly entertaining movie, considering the time in which it was made. I wonder if this was the first MGM sound movie about putting on a Broadway show? (The IMDb cast list is rather skimpy in that it doesn't tell us more about who played which role. For example, I would like to know who played the stuttering uncle. He was sort of entertaining and should have been listed in the cast.)
Charles King (Eddie Kearns), Anita Page (Queenie Mahoney), and Bessie Love (Hank Mahoney) steal the show as a boyfriend and two sisters from out of town. The theater owner's name was Francis Zanfield (Eddie Kane), and one wonders if this isn't a takeoff on the name, Florenz Ziegfeld. (Well, I probably just answered my own question there!!)
The story, itself, is rather thin, but the entertainment is good. One thing it presents, that I had never seen before or since, is a woman tap dancing on her toes in ballet slippers. To me, this was really quite a remarkable feat on some really remarkable feet!!
This is a fairly entertaining movie, considering the time in which it was made. I wonder if this was the first MGM sound movie about putting on a Broadway show? (The IMDb cast list is rather skimpy in that it doesn't tell us more about who played which role. For example, I would like to know who played the stuttering uncle. He was sort of entertaining and should have been listed in the cast.)
Charles King (Eddie Kearns), Anita Page (Queenie Mahoney), and Bessie Love (Hank Mahoney) steal the show as a boyfriend and two sisters from out of town. The theater owner's name was Francis Zanfield (Eddie Kane), and one wonders if this isn't a takeoff on the name, Florenz Ziegfeld. (Well, I probably just answered my own question there!!)
The story, itself, is rather thin, but the entertainment is good. One thing it presents, that I had never seen before or since, is a woman tap dancing on her toes in ballet slippers. To me, this was really quite a remarkable feat on some really remarkable feet!!