My Take:

Theater troupe nears the end of their first run on Broadway and drama ensues behind the curtain.

This film is more for interesting for what’s not in it than what is. Parts of this black and white film were shot in two strip Technicolor and later lost rendering whole scenes unusable, including the finale “Happy Days Are Here Again,” the first time the song was used in a film. This was Jack Benny’s first film role and he was in it quite a bit. Both Bessie Love and Charles King starred in “The Broadway Melody,” and this film is compared to that one a lot.

What I Liked:

Marie Dressler, wonderful actress.

What I Didn't Like:

The awkward musical interludes where the old two strip Technicolor used to be.

What I Learned:

Bessie Love continued to act for another fifty plus years and her last role was Tony Scott’s The Hunger.