Hardly a high point of the Warner Brothers' musicals of the thirties. In fact, it's mostly terrible except for the magnificently spectacular and Oscar-winning 'Lullaby of Broadway' number. The plot is basically another 'putting-on-a-show' job, in this case an 'amateur' production in a fancy hotel with Alice Brady as the rich backer who hates spending a cent, Adolphe Menjou as the eccentric director and a cast that includes regular Dick Powell. This time Busby Berkeley wasn't just responsisble for staging the musical numbers but everything else as well and there is way too much unfunny 'comedy' padding. It's all fairly painless but it's certainly not memorable.
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