Ethnic comedy of a nightclub entertainer trying to train a boxer.Ethnic comedy of a nightclub entertainer trying to train a boxer.Ethnic comedy of a nightclub entertainer trying to train a boxer.
Fanny Brice
- Fannie Field
- (as Fannie Brice)
Marjorie Kane
- Lola
- (as Marjorie 'Babe' Kane)
One-Eye Connelly
- Bit Role
- (uncredited)
Chuck Hamilton
- Club Patron
- (uncredited)
Anderson Lawler
- Patron in Night Club
- (uncredited)
Jimmy Tolson
- Blues Singer
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis film is one of over 200 titles in the list of independent feature films made available for television presentation by Advance Television Pictures announced in Motion Picture Herald 4 April 1942. At this time, television broadcasting was in its infancy, almost totally curtailed by the advent of World War II, and would not continue to develop until 1945-1946. Because of poor documentation (feature films were often not identified by title in conventional sources) no record has yet been found of its initial television broadcast.
- Quotes
Harry Field: A verbal agreement...
Fannie Field: ...is not worth the paper it's written on.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Broadway: The American Musical (2004)
- SoundtracksWhen a Man Loves a Woman
(1930) (uncredited)
Music by Ralph Rainger
Lyrics by Billy Rose
Sung twice by Fanny Brice, first time with
chorus including Patsy 'Babe' Kane, Gertrude Astor
Featured review
And Who Else Could She Be?
Fanny Brice is a nightclub entertainer who has a couple of prize fighters tangle over her. She sides with Robert Armstrong and becomes his manager. Things go along swimmingly, unti he starts to have some success, whereupon very blonde Gertrude Astor moves in on him.
It's enough plot to hang the movie on. The real purpose is to have Miss Brice sing five songs by Billy Rose and do her ballerina shtick. Producers John Considine and Joseph Schenck must have figured that as long as Broadway was going Hollywood, the perennial Ziegfeld Follies star was a natural. While she's good and believable, especially with Harry Green to do the raw comedy, the movie career didn't materialize. I expect it was the destruction of the musical movie in 1930 and Miss Brice's pleasant but ordinary appearance that closed that door, and her needing an audience. She remained an occasional guest star, particularly when someone was doing a movie about Ziegfeld, but she retreated to the stage, and let radio stardom come her way.
It's enough plot to hang the movie on. The real purpose is to have Miss Brice sing five songs by Billy Rose and do her ballerina shtick. Producers John Considine and Joseph Schenck must have figured that as long as Broadway was going Hollywood, the perennial Ziegfeld Follies star was a natural. While she's good and believable, especially with Harry Green to do the raw comedy, the movie career didn't materialize. I expect it was the destruction of the musical movie in 1930 and Miss Brice's pleasant but ordinary appearance that closed that door, and her needing an audience. She remained an occasional guest star, particularly when someone was doing a movie about Ziegfeld, but she retreated to the stage, and let radio stardom come her way.
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- May 11, 2021
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- El punto flaco
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- Runtime1 hour 5 minutes
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- 1.20 : 1
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