Frank Fay is in much better form than his rather poor Show of Shows showing in Michael Curtiz's God's Gift to Women (1931).
True, the director is obviously battling to keep the loquacious Fay the center of attention when he is so obviously outclassed not only by the women of the title (led by the lovely Laura La Plante, assisted by - in order of importance - Joan Blondell, Yola d'Avril, Margaret Livingston and Louise Brooks) but by most of the men (Alan Mowbray, Charles Winninger, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Billy House and even Charles Judels)!
One wonders why the studio persevered with Fay, when he was obviously so heavily outclassed by just about everyone else on the lot!
(Available on a nice public domain DVD)
True, the director is obviously battling to keep the loquacious Fay the center of attention when he is so obviously outclassed not only by the women of the title (led by the lovely Laura La Plante, assisted by - in order of importance - Joan Blondell, Yola d'Avril, Margaret Livingston and Louise Brooks) but by most of the men (Alan Mowbray, Charles Winninger, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Billy House and even Charles Judels)!
One wonders why the studio persevered with Fay, when he was obviously so heavily outclassed by just about everyone else on the lot!
(Available on a nice public domain DVD)