![]() ![]() His ex-wife (Renee Whitney) is deliberately dragging her feet on signing their divorce papers.Another secretary, Bea (Ruby Keeler), wants to return to dancing herself.His secretary Nan (Joan Blondell) is his best asset, but also secretly in love with him, and he doesn’t notice it.His partner’s wife pressures him to employ her family members, all of them amateur actors or fussy morals censors.His business partner (Guy Kibbee) is cooking the books.Within a blink, we seem him as the head of a thriving studio.Īs lighting-quick as his success, it has also brought a host of problems: Kent’s genius idea, which he has right at the start of the film, is to franchise out the practice – rehearsing his teams of chorines in New York and then bussing them out to tour various theaters throughout the country, as the studio and distributors demand. Cagney – who reportedly campaigned for the role – is Chester Kent, founder of a studio churning out what he calls “prologues,” live production numbers with gangs of showgirls that serve as the opening act in big movie houses before they screen the film. To be fair, there is a bit more to the plot than that. …Want to watch too? I can stop and start over.ĪLEX: (long pause) ….Okay: respect to Jimmy Cagney and the film, but I’m going to say, “good luck and go with God.” ME: …Uh…for the first two minutes, Jimmy Cagney was a Broadway producer who got the idea to put production numbers with showgirls in movie theaters, and then it’s all been him doing that.ĪLEX: Oh, so it’s like a Busby Berkley thing. It stars Jimmy Cagney and a bunch of the same people from 42 nd Street. He has worked in film and has been very interested in my project. ![]() I think the best way to open this review is to present a conversation I had with my roommate Alex, who came home about five minutes into my screening. ![]()
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