BLONDIE OF THE FOLLIES

CREDITS

1932, 97 minutes, B&W.
Producer, Marion Davies; Director, Edmund Goulding; Screenplay; Anita Loos and Frances Marion; Cinematography; George Barnes; Music Director, William Axt.

CAST

Blondie McClune, Marion Davies; Larry Belmont,Robert Montgomery; Jimmy,Jimmy Durante; Lottie,Billie Dove; Pop McClune,James Gleason; Gertie,ZaSu Pitts; Pete, Sidney Toler; Murchenson,Douglas Dumbrille; Ma McClune, Sarah Padden.

SONGS

Goodnight, My Love by Harry Tobias, Gus Arnheim and Jules Lemare; Tell Me While We're Dancing by Harry Link and Nick Kenny; Why Don't You Take Me? by Edmund Goulding; Three On a Match by Ray Egan and Ted Fiorito; Goin' Fishin' by Walter Samuels and Leonard Whitcup; It Was So Beautiful by Arthur Freed and Harry Barris; Don't Take Your Girl to the Grand Hotel by Dave Snell.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

". . .a backstage yarn about a chorus girl's romance with a debonair playboy. Marion Davies was the chorine, Robert Montgomery the man-about-town, and Billie Dove a long-standing chum of Miss Davies's who, to further the plot, also happens to be in love with Mongtomery."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

NOTES

"A scintillating cast plus a crackling good screenplay. . .worked its alchemy on Blondie of the Follies. . .the standout moment in the show had Jimmy Durante and Miss Davies impersonating John Barrymore and Greta Garbo in MGM's then current hit, Grand Hotel. . ."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"Not bad, but not very good, with chances that it will just get by. Length and slow pace the drawbacks. . .It isn't padded out, it's just flatfooted."
- Variety

"An unjustly forgotten film."
The New Yorker