After finally looking at this movie, MGM did not seem to care about Bud & Lou. They might have done better with the studio if they had come along when Irving Thalberg was still alive, but they arrived at MGM much too late for that. It was he who recognized how the Marx Brothers who were an insanely amazing comedy team could be structured into rehearsing their movie materials in front of a live audience and then putting it into their film "A Night At The Opera". One can only wish he had gotten the chance to do that here.
Bud & Lou do get some good moments and routines into this one, early in the film. If MGM had been serious though, they would have gotten a lot more famous cameos from the top actors and actresses at the studio at that time. Other than a straight cameo from Lucille Ball, and a small moment from Hank Worden, this movie misses on that count too.
Even the writer of the story for this one (Martin A. Gosch), only wrote one other film later in the 1950's. If only MGM would have sprung to get John Grant who wrote a lot of their material here to add comedic material it would have helped. The best thing is this movie still exists. It makes the statement that even the great MGM studio had some major screw ups and missed opportunities. This movie, with some of the most forgettable music in movie history, is one of those.
Bud & Lou do get some good moments and routines into this one, early in the film. If MGM had been serious though, they would have gotten a lot more famous cameos from the top actors and actresses at the studio at that time. Other than a straight cameo from Lucille Ball, and a small moment from Hank Worden, this movie misses on that count too.
Even the writer of the story for this one (Martin A. Gosch), only wrote one other film later in the 1950's. If only MGM would have sprung to get John Grant who wrote a lot of their material here to add comedic material it would have helped. The best thing is this movie still exists. It makes the statement that even the great MGM studio had some major screw ups and missed opportunities. This movie, with some of the most forgettable music in movie history, is one of those.