Ralph Forbes (Tommy Tilton), Marion Shilling (Smitty), Malcolm McGregor (Ted Benson), James Guilfoyle (Lou Baron), John W. Cowell (Captain Flynn), William Norton Bailey (Van Ostrum), Agnes Anderson (Nadia), Mildred Claire (aka Claire Rochelle), (Valerie Delroy), Gayne Kinsey (Walton, Valerie's dance partner), Harry Semels (Luigi), Al Klein (waiter), Miki Morita (Tato), Murdock MacQuarrie (accident witness), Gene Johnston (orchestra leader), Karl Hackett (Bill, a friend of Ted Benson), Phil Dunham (the newspaper editor), Lester Dorr (taxi- driver).
Director: BERNARD B. RAY. Story and screenplay: Phil Dunham. Special dialogue: Edwin K. O'Brien. Photography: James Diamond. Film editor: Charles Henkel. Art director: Vin Taylor. Music: Gene Johnston. Song, "Love Dreams" (Anderson) by Gene Johnston (music) and Carl Dudley (lyrics). Assistant director: George Jeske. Sound recording: Cliff Ruberg. Producer: C.C. Burr.
Copyright 2 March 1936 by Puritan Pictures Corporation. No recorded New York opening. 66 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Gossip columnist has a stab at fulfilling the title boast.
COMMENT: Almost a complete waste of time, except on two counts: — Agnes Anderson and Claire Rochelle. Miss Anderson made only nine films, all between 1935 and 1937, and in two of these she was not credited. Here she not only plays the heavy with charismatic fervor but even sings quite pleasantly. It's a shame she had only the one number.
Miss Rochelle, on the other hand, chalked up no less than fifty pictures from 1933 through 1946, mostly in very small roles. Here she not only looks stunning, but dances delightfully. Unfortunately, aside from these two performances and Mr. Johnston's melodious score (he can be glimpsed briefly in a few long shots), this Poverty Row entry has absolutely nothing to commend it.
We could run through its vices for the next two pages, starting with the hammy Ralph Forbes, taking a pot-shot at Harry Semels' utterly unconvincing nightclub proprietor, labeling production values as virtually non-existent, and finishing off with Mr Ray's abysmally incompetent direction. It's no wonder that our Ray chose to hide his contribution to this penny dreadful under the pseudonym, Raymond K. Johnson.
And yes, this is the same B.B. Ray who was commended for his "first rate technique" by Harry T. Smith when reviewing Ray's "El Crimen de Media Noche" in the 22nd February 1936 edition of The New York Times. Astonishing, but true!
Director: BERNARD B. RAY. Story and screenplay: Phil Dunham. Special dialogue: Edwin K. O'Brien. Photography: James Diamond. Film editor: Charles Henkel. Art director: Vin Taylor. Music: Gene Johnston. Song, "Love Dreams" (Anderson) by Gene Johnston (music) and Carl Dudley (lyrics). Assistant director: George Jeske. Sound recording: Cliff Ruberg. Producer: C.C. Burr.
Copyright 2 March 1936 by Puritan Pictures Corporation. No recorded New York opening. 66 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Gossip columnist has a stab at fulfilling the title boast.
COMMENT: Almost a complete waste of time, except on two counts: — Agnes Anderson and Claire Rochelle. Miss Anderson made only nine films, all between 1935 and 1937, and in two of these she was not credited. Here she not only plays the heavy with charismatic fervor but even sings quite pleasantly. It's a shame she had only the one number.
Miss Rochelle, on the other hand, chalked up no less than fifty pictures from 1933 through 1946, mostly in very small roles. Here she not only looks stunning, but dances delightfully. Unfortunately, aside from these two performances and Mr. Johnston's melodious score (he can be glimpsed briefly in a few long shots), this Poverty Row entry has absolutely nothing to commend it.
We could run through its vices for the next two pages, starting with the hammy Ralph Forbes, taking a pot-shot at Harry Semels' utterly unconvincing nightclub proprietor, labeling production values as virtually non-existent, and finishing off with Mr Ray's abysmally incompetent direction. It's no wonder that our Ray chose to hide his contribution to this penny dreadful under the pseudonym, Raymond K. Johnson.
And yes, this is the same B.B. Ray who was commended for his "first rate technique" by Harry T. Smith when reviewing Ray's "El Crimen de Media Noche" in the 22nd February 1936 edition of The New York Times. Astonishing, but true!