Glorifying the American Girl (1929)

Glorifying the American Girl: Directed by Millard Webb. With Mary Eaton, Eddie Cantor, Helen Morgan, Rudy Vallee. The rise of a showgirl, Gloria Hughes, culminating in a Ziegfeld extravaganza “Glorifying the American Girl”.

“The opening sequence of the picture is quite a sight to see, the way it was edited, the positioning of the sets and actors featured in the opening, and to top it all off, a few short clips from Ziegfeldu0026#39;s best known music from his best known music numbers (including u0026quot;A Pretty Girl is like a Melodyu0026quot;). The rest is for all of you to see. It is available from Alpha Video and maybe a few public-domain distributors (do not expect to find it on DVD, it is a fairly rare film and I was lucky to get mine). The scenes that were shot in Technicolor are somewhat visible if you squint real, real hard. This is a 75 year old picture weu0026#39;re talking about here, itu0026#39;s amazing how much footage of Technicolor has survived since then, because there is so little of it. I originally purchased this picture to see what itu0026#39;s Technicolor sequences look like. I was very suprised though with how it turned out to be. Whoever did the choreography for this picture was a genius because the dancing is very well done. Adding it to your collection (whether or not you chose to do so) will certainly be worth your money.”