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LAUGH * SWING * THRILL*!
Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.
George White's Scandals
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09 Oct 1945
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2021 February (a song & dance month for me): See my Hits & Misses Here
5.5/10
Best Song: 'I Wake up in the Morning'
Performers: Joan Davis & Jack HaleyBest thing about this confused film are the opening credits!
To show the credits, George White Showgirls (he was a competitor to Ziegfeld's Follies) pull embroidered theater curtains one by one from one side of the stage to other and the movie's credits are embroidered on each curtain. A very creative way to start a film about a theatrical producer.
But then the movie just meanders around with no point (and why Margaret Hamilton has a large role in this at all, I don't know. She plays Jack Haley's brother, but isn't connected…
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I liked this a lot more than I should have, given it’s basically just a sloppy variety show shoehorned into the shape of a movie, but man: give me Gene Krupa whaling away on a drum like a monkey on crack and I am down for it.
The problem of course is that Krupa is such a small part of this thing, and the rest is given over to the leads Joan Davis and Jack Haley. I liked these two just fine, as the two push through a bunch of novelty songs and vaudeville routines, about half of which were any good.
The good news is that there’s an energy to this that I just dig, making it all feel…
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A nice if fairly minor RKO musical. Jack Haley and Joan Davis work well together and there are some nicely surreal moments along the way, they also get one excellent piece "I Wake Up in the Morning." The other numbers are unmemorable, although Gene Krupa is always mesmerising, but unfortunately Rose Murphy is wasted in a small part as a maid, only getting one short number. A better film than I was expecting, fun, but not great.
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"Would you explain what it is you don't like about me? Just please, don't make it personal."
I'm a simple person. I see Joan Davis, and I laugh. I see Jack Haley re-team with Margaret Hamilton alongside Joan Davis and, despite sexist tropes, I laugh!! What a silly, fun reunion. Davis and Haley were a cute couple, whose sparse bickering was funny because it was never negging ("don't you honey butt me!"). There's some great one-liners and super fun musical talent on display here. The B storyline was totally unnecessary/ forgettable and I did skip past some of the more elaborate musical numbers - which also got me to wondering, what if this kind of movie was made now? Just…
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Oh god, I've seen this before and i didn't like it then either! Just aggressively misogynistic and gruelingly unfunny.
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Enjoyable Scandals, but this was one where the story got in the way of a good show. While the romantics of Joan Davis & Jack Haley served well as comic relief, the other one was a waste of time and they should have included more of those show numbers instead of it.
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