6/10
Woiking In The Movies For The Vitaphone
27 March 2021
It's an assortment of songs and production numbers with Lilian Roth, backed by the Vitaphone chorus line. It's given some structure by casting it as a movie story conference, looking for a vehicle for Miss Roth, and some pep by a Busby-Berkeley shot in the finale.

Raised by a couple of stage parents, Miss Roth was on Broadway by age six; when she was 17, she was a headliner for Ziegfeld, with some early, good roles in movie musicals. Her personal life was far more chaotic, and she went through six marriages and a lot of liquor before she published her memoirs and they were made into a movie. She re-established stage credits, but her roles in movies were more in the nature of cameos. She died in 1980 at age 69.
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