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Apr 06, 2014biffblack rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
A silly movie that made me laugh a lot. The Ritz Brothers -- mostly, Harry Ritz -- were hysterically funny, particularly when HR gets in drag as Alice Faye. Faye herself was no beauty, yet was a versatile performer, equally adept at parody (her scene with the squealing pigs is a stand-out) and at singing a tender ballad, a la "This Year's Kisses." Soundtrack has at least 2 other Irving Berlin gems: I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm and the haunting You're Laughing at Me. OTA is more earthbound than the Warners musicals from the 1930s -- it lacks their ephemeral quality, and there isn't much dancing either. Worth seeing just to look at the gorgeous blond Madeleine Carroll, who wears all sorts of fabulous gowns; she's smashing in all of them, plus she could really act, too.