| Joan Blondell , Dick Powell , Ruby
Keeler, ZaSu Pitts , Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert , Arthur Vinton
As the title song says, you go to those shows to see those beautiful
dames--and there's dames aplenty in this 1934 Busby Berkeley extravaganza.
The wisp of a plot is motivated by one Ezra Ounce (Hugh Herbert),
a silly millionaire who spearheads a national anti-fun movement.
Ounce's distant cousin Dick Powell is a producer of musical comedies.
Ounce's partner is Guy Kibbee, whose daughter is Ruby Keeler. Kibbee
is also the "sugar daddy" of Joan Blondell, Powell's friend
and co-worker. Fill in the rest of the blanks yourself. If the plot
doesn't interest you (and there's no reason why it should), sit
back and enjoy the humongous production numbers based on the Warren/Dubin
songs "I Only Have Eyes for You", "The Girl on the
Ironing Board", and of course the title number. |