Lots of dancing. I am giving it a high grade.
Part of the Mickey festival on TV, since he recently passed away (RIP Mickey Rooney). I waited all through the movie for Mickey, then he finally came on at one hour into the film, with 33 minutes to go. I thought surely that Mickey would be in the final half hour -- closing the show with a big finale. I was wrong. Child Mickey was on for I would guess a total of about five minutes. His grown up self was of course played by another actor, who certainly looked nothing like Mickey. The Ted III was a lazy stuck-on-himself lout, who just barely managed to get his career back on track before Grandpa kicked the bucket. :(
Alice Brady and Frank Morgan did a great job in their gradual aging makeup. Their characters had been well known in vaudeville, but they told their progeny that they had worked for pittances. Their big break with Weber & Fields (yes, I have heard of them) was a huge letdown of few lines and little respect.
Ted II tap danced way too strongly. He was just beating that floor. He dressed in top hat and tails, but appeared very clumsy and overdoing it.
All three male generations were just too loose with the ladies. The part where the young wife falls (leaps?) to her death was a terrible part to behold.
Pre-code. The woman in the Living Pictures. Skimpy, tight costume, although pleasant to look at in the eyes of Frank Morgan. Crappy to look at from the eyes of Alice Brady. Little Jackie Cooper had a great role model. Jackie was being trained in the ways of leering at the trashy ladies.
Mickey Rooney tapping twelve million miles per minute. Must have been about 12 years during filming. Small for his age, of course; looked around 10 years old. Movie released 1933, when he would have been 13. The next year, 1934, he scored big in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", as Puck -- a magical go-fer for Oberon, King of the Fairies (Victor Jory).
Mickey, we will always love you.
8/10
Part of the Mickey festival on TV, since he recently passed away (RIP Mickey Rooney). I waited all through the movie for Mickey, then he finally came on at one hour into the film, with 33 minutes to go. I thought surely that Mickey would be in the final half hour -- closing the show with a big finale. I was wrong. Child Mickey was on for I would guess a total of about five minutes. His grown up self was of course played by another actor, who certainly looked nothing like Mickey. The Ted III was a lazy stuck-on-himself lout, who just barely managed to get his career back on track before Grandpa kicked the bucket. :(
Alice Brady and Frank Morgan did a great job in their gradual aging makeup. Their characters had been well known in vaudeville, but they told their progeny that they had worked for pittances. Their big break with Weber & Fields (yes, I have heard of them) was a huge letdown of few lines and little respect.
Ted II tap danced way too strongly. He was just beating that floor. He dressed in top hat and tails, but appeared very clumsy and overdoing it.
All three male generations were just too loose with the ladies. The part where the young wife falls (leaps?) to her death was a terrible part to behold.
Pre-code. The woman in the Living Pictures. Skimpy, tight costume, although pleasant to look at in the eyes of Frank Morgan. Crappy to look at from the eyes of Alice Brady. Little Jackie Cooper had a great role model. Jackie was being trained in the ways of leering at the trashy ladies.
Mickey Rooney tapping twelve million miles per minute. Must have been about 12 years during filming. Small for his age, of course; looked around 10 years old. Movie released 1933, when he would have been 13. The next year, 1934, he scored big in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", as Puck -- a magical go-fer for Oberon, King of the Fairies (Victor Jory).
Mickey, we will always love you.
8/10