Underplayed Gems

The Tenderfoot (1932)

The Tenderfoot poster
Directed by
Ray Enright
Genre
musical film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A naive young man from the country goes to New York City to invest in a Broadway show. He gets caught up in the schemes of a con artist and meets a sharp-minded woman. It is a comedy about a bumpkin learning the ropes of show business.

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What happens

The Tenderfoot is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy western film directed by Ray Enright and written by Earl Baldwin, Monty Banks and Arthur Caesar. The film stars Joe E. Brown and Ginger Rogers. The film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on May 23, 1932. It is based on Richard Carle's 1903 play The Tenderfoot, and George S. Kaufman's 1925 play The Butter and Egg Man. The play was first adapted to film The Butter and Egg Man in 1928. It was remade as Dance Charlie Dance (1937) and An Angel from Texas (1940), and enough of the plot elements were worked into Hello, Sweetheart (1935) and Three Sailors and a Girl (1953) to warrant a credit for Kaufman's play as a basis of those scripts. An Angel from Texas was directed by Ray Enright, who also directed The Tenderfoot. Enright and Brown worked together on five pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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