Glorifying the American Girl
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| Glorifying the American Girl (1929) | |
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| Directed by | RJohn W. Harkrider Millard Webb |
| Written by | Walter Anthony based on the operetta by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto A. Harbach |
| Starring | Mary Eaton Dan Healy |
| Music by | Irving Berlin Walter Donaldson Rudolf Friml James E. Hanley |
| Cinematography | George J. Folsey (Technicolor) |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | December 7, 1929 |
| Running time | 87 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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Glorifying the American Girl is a 1929 musical comedy film produced by Florenz Ziegfeld and highlighting his Ziegfeld Follies girls. The last third of the film (which was filmed in Technicolor) is basically a Follies production, with cameo appearances by Rudy Vallee, Helen Morgan and Eddie Cantor.
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[edit] Production
The script for the film was written by J.P. McEvoy and Millard Webb and directed by John W. Harkrider and Millard Webb. The songs were written by Irving Berlin, Walter Donaldson, Rudolf Friml, James E. Hanley, Larry Spier and Dave Stamper.
[edit] Plot
The plot involves a young woman (Mary Eaton) who wants to be in the Follies, but in the meantime is making ends meet by singing at a department store's sheet music department, where she sings the latest hits. She is accompanied on piano by her childhood boyfriend (Edward Crandall), who is in love with her, despite her single-minded interest in her career. When a vaudeville performer (Dan Healy) asks her to join him as his new partner, she sees it as an attempt to make her dream come true.
[edit] Trivia
The movie contains brief shots of Noah Beery, Irving Berlin, Billie Burke, Charles B. Dillingham, Texas Guinan, Otto Kahn, Ring Lardner and Mayor of New York City Jimmy Walker as themselves. There is also an uncredited non-speaking scene with Johnny Weissmuller wearing nothing but a fig leaf.
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[edit] Preservation
The film survives complete and has been restored with the original Technicolor sequences by UCLA.
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