Two broke ex-chorus girls in California hope to get back to Broadway by winning the "Miss Pacific Fleet" popularity contest.Two broke ex-chorus girls in California hope to get back to Broadway by winning the "Miss Pacific Fleet" popularity contest.Two broke ex-chorus girls in California hope to get back to Broadway by winning the "Miss Pacific Fleet" popularity contest.
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
- Nicholas 'Nick' - Annie's Boyfriend
- (as Guinn Williams)
Harrison Greene
- Jackson
- (scenes deleted)
Allen Wood
- Hay
- (scenes deleted)
Marie Astaire
- Girl
- (uncredited)
Constance Bergen
- Beauty Contest Participant
- (uncredited)
Joe Bordeaux
- Kidnapper Piloting Speedboat
- (uncredited)
James P. Burtis
- Sailor
- (uncredited)
Eddy Chandler
- Chief Petty Officer
- (uncredited)
Mabel Colcord
- Kewpie's Landlady
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBy the insignia on his uniform, Kewpie is a Gunner's Mate First Class and has been in the Navy at least 12 years.
Tom Foster is a Gunnery Sergeant and has been in the Marine Corps at least 12 years.
- GoofsFreytag brings what appears to be three books into the meeting at the beginning of the film. Later, it's revealed the "books" are actually a box with decanters and filled shot glasses. However, the way he carried the box into the room would have meant all the shot glasses would have been spilled.
- SoundtracksYou're So Lovely
(uncredited)
Music by M.K. Jerome
Lyrics by Herb Magidson
Played during the opening credits and often in the score
Sung later in the picture
Featured review
A terrible film made deliberately badly to ruin JoanBlondell's career
This is a horrible film. It's not just horrible, it makes you angry when you realise why it was made so bad.
The only interesting thing about this (besides the electronic monkey) is that it's a classic example of how bad a picture can become when nobody involved wants to make it. Everything about this is excruciatingly awful: the story, the direction, the photography and the acting (especially the acting!) is shambolic.
Joan Blondell, the loveliest actress of the 1930s had had enough of having to play the exact same part in the exact same story with the exact same team and same director in her last four movies. She was a great actress but could see no end to her own personal Groundhog Day so tried to rebel against Warners. Cagney and Bette Davis had done the same and won and become massive stars. Joan unfortunately, maybe because she was going through a messy divorce at the time, didn't.
The studio then forced her do this as punishment. It was made really quickly on a shoestring so looked incredibly cheap. It was made badly on purpose which was Warners' way of crushing her ambition and keeping their asset doing what they wanted. It's so upsetting watching this because this atrocious, badly written, totally unfunny trash was how the studio if not exactly ruined but certainly stifled her career.
The only interesting thing about this (besides the electronic monkey) is that it's a classic example of how bad a picture can become when nobody involved wants to make it. Everything about this is excruciatingly awful: the story, the direction, the photography and the acting (especially the acting!) is shambolic.
Joan Blondell, the loveliest actress of the 1930s had had enough of having to play the exact same part in the exact same story with the exact same team and same director in her last four movies. She was a great actress but could see no end to her own personal Groundhog Day so tried to rebel against Warners. Cagney and Bette Davis had done the same and won and become massive stars. Joan unfortunately, maybe because she was going through a messy divorce at the time, didn't.
The studio then forced her do this as punishment. It was made really quickly on a shoestring so looked incredibly cheap. It was made badly on purpose which was Warners' way of crushing her ambition and keeping their asset doing what they wanted. It's so upsetting watching this because this atrocious, badly written, totally unfunny trash was how the studio if not exactly ruined but certainly stifled her career.
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- 1930s_Time_Machine
- Mar 16, 2023
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- I vasilissa tou stolou
- Filming locations
- San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA(scenes of fleet arriving at beginning of film)
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $202,798 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 6 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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