In the 1930's, there were two films called "Million Dollar Legs", the name of the film with in a film that Marian Nixon is starring in. The paint by numbers script of this poverty row comedy romance is a weakness for any credibility that the film might have, the often repeated story of a rising film star and her struggles on and off the set. The lack of sympathy for Nixon is also accelerated with no charisma of leading man Kane Richmond who would go on to be a great B film detective a decade later.
Nixon is ruthless in her pursuits to rise from model to film star, and her character is not always consistent. The film shooting sequences (particularly her screen test) are laughable. The only real amusements come from Inez Courtney as the wisecracking best friend, John Peters as a Von Stroheim like imperious director and Art Howard and Gloria Gordon as an aging businessman and his imperious wife. I'd rather have spent my 70 minutes watching them argue than deal with the whining Nixon and the wimpy Richmond.
Nixon is ruthless in her pursuits to rise from model to film star, and her character is not always consistent. The film shooting sequences (particularly her screen test) are laughable. The only real amusements come from Inez Courtney as the wisecracking best friend, John Peters as a Von Stroheim like imperious director and Art Howard and Gloria Gordon as an aging businessman and his imperious wife. I'd rather have spent my 70 minutes watching them argue than deal with the whining Nixon and the wimpy Richmond.