Dames
Summary:
As the title song says, you go to those shows to see those beautiful dames--and there's dames aplenty in this 1934 Busby Berkeley extravaganza. The wisp of a plot is motivated by one Ezra Ounce (Hugh Herbert), a silly millionaire who spearheads a national anti-fun movement. Ounce's distant cousin Dick Powell is a producer of musical comedies. Ounce's partner is Guy Kibbee, wh... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Joan Blondell - (Mabel Anderson)
Dick Powell - (Jimmy Higgens)
Ruby Keeler - (Barbara Hemingway)
ZaSu Pitts - (Mathilda Hemingway)
Guy Kibbee - (Horace P. Hemingway)
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Review:
As Dames amply demonstrates, some musical films simply have to be judged by a different standard than other films. Dames is enormously entertaining, but it really shouldn't be. The script is a re-hash of every other backstage musical; for novelty, the writers have thrown in some nonsense about bluenoses trying to clean up entertainment and ta... Continue >>
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