Ruth Etting, a popular depression era songstress, made a series of shorts, playing herself, with a song or two in each. Etting didn't do many films, so this is a rarem chance to both see and hear her.
This is one of he better ones and conveys the innocence and charms of the 1930s.
After recording a wonderful version of St. Louis Blues Etting retreats to a small town. There she befriends a "soda jerk" played by Frank Coughlin Jr. And with her fame, helps the teen with his dating troubles.
Ruth wraps up the film with a rendition of the hit, It Had To Be You.
Simple, charming and a time machine to those wonderful days of soda shoppes.
This is one of he better ones and conveys the innocence and charms of the 1930s.
After recording a wonderful version of St. Louis Blues Etting retreats to a small town. There she befriends a "soda jerk" played by Frank Coughlin Jr. And with her fame, helps the teen with his dating troubles.
Ruth wraps up the film with a rendition of the hit, It Had To Be You.
Simple, charming and a time machine to those wonderful days of soda shoppes.
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