Glorifying the American Girl (1929)

Directed by

Millard Webb, John W. Harkrider, Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.

Genre

musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman joins the Ziegfeld Follies and pursues a stage career. The film follows her journey from small-town life to Broadway stardom, featuring elaborate musical numbers and celebrity cameos.

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What happens

Glorifying the American Girl is a 1929 American pre-Code musical comedy film produced by Florenz Ziegfeld that highlights Ziegfeld Follies performers. The last third of the film, which was filmed in early Technicolor, is basically a Follies production, with appearances by Rudy Vallee, Helen Morgan, and Eddie Cantor. Rex Beach was paid $35,000 for the original story. The script for the film was written by J.P. McEvoy and Millard Webb and directed by John W. Harkrider and Millard Webb. The songs were written by Irving Berlin, Walter Donaldson, Rudolf Friml, James E. Hanley, Larry Spier, Dave Stamper and others not credited (see Soundtrack). The film is in the public domain, and many prints exhibited on television are in black-and-white only, and do not include pre-Code material, such as nudity. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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