Frances Langford began her film career in 1932 as a brunette songbird - ten years later she was still going strong as a blonde!!! She certainly deserved better than this, even with support from Iris Adrian, who is her usual snappy self.
The radiant Miss Langford plays Joan Terry from Kansas City, who is determined to make good on Broadway. After some harsh words from her soon to be ex fiancé, she takes a room at Barton Hall, a theatrical boarding house, run by "Pops", and where she meets a variety of girls, both nice and nasty.
The film is a showcase for the mellow tones of Miss Langford as she sings her way through several very forgettable songs - "Blue in Love Again", "Someday", "A Dream Came True" and "That's How the Rhumba Began".
The nice girls form "Talent Inc." to help Joan realise her Broadway dream -they get together enough money to pay her rent and give her a weekly allowance. They think that she is the only one of them that has got a chance of "making it". Since, apart from Lorraine Kruegar, you don't see anyone else perform - maybe they are right!!!
She finally gets a chance at a Broadway show ...and the film is over. After the dress rehearsal in fact. She doesn't even get a chance to kiss Edward Norris in the fadeout. Who gets who is worked out between him and her fiancée while she is still singing on stage. Then "The End" flashes on screen.
Lorraine Krueger, who I thought was a real stand-out in "New Faces of 1937" does a pretty good tap routine in homage to Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.
The radiant Miss Langford plays Joan Terry from Kansas City, who is determined to make good on Broadway. After some harsh words from her soon to be ex fiancé, she takes a room at Barton Hall, a theatrical boarding house, run by "Pops", and where she meets a variety of girls, both nice and nasty.
The film is a showcase for the mellow tones of Miss Langford as she sings her way through several very forgettable songs - "Blue in Love Again", "Someday", "A Dream Came True" and "That's How the Rhumba Began".
The nice girls form "Talent Inc." to help Joan realise her Broadway dream -they get together enough money to pay her rent and give her a weekly allowance. They think that she is the only one of them that has got a chance of "making it". Since, apart from Lorraine Kruegar, you don't see anyone else perform - maybe they are right!!!
She finally gets a chance at a Broadway show ...and the film is over. After the dress rehearsal in fact. She doesn't even get a chance to kiss Edward Norris in the fadeout. Who gets who is worked out between him and her fiancée while she is still singing on stage. Then "The End" flashes on screen.
Lorraine Krueger, who I thought was a real stand-out in "New Faces of 1937" does a pretty good tap routine in homage to Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.