I actually rate this film about a 6 and a half, but I decided to round it off to a 7. My title up above for this film is my feelings for it in a nutshell. Where I said a good look at roaring 20s music, I meant some roaring 20s music was the kind of music in this film. The other kind of popular 1920s music was all the jazz and ragtime from that era. This film "Hollywood revue" is not a story and has no plot. It's a long stretch of then popular songs and dances. I read somewhere that people complained about some of the first few films with sound in the late 1920s being all music and no story, and that's why starting in the early 1930s musicals had a story with funny and interesting speaking parts as well as songs ("Footlight parade", "Dames", "42nd St" and the Gold diggers films are still my favorites). I've also read, however, that people back then loved the musical numbers and really enjoyed most sound films in general whether stories or musicals since it was all such a brand new novelty and exciting. That's the one I believe more. I didn't like this as much as some of the great films that were to come in the next following years, but there were a number of songs and numbers that I really did like. First, the 1920s version of "Singing in the rain". It was pretty good although not my favorite version. It played more like an old folk song here on guitar, and had some good dancers and sprinklers pouring down rain from the ceiling. It was the first of several versions. Judy Garland's version was beautiful, just like most of her stuff. And of course, the most famous one of all, Gene Kelly's raincoat and streetlamp legendary great from film of the same name. I loved Joan Crawford in her early things, she was so beautiful in her distinctive way. She was great in "Grand hotel", and she was great here performing "Got a feeling for you" with her beautiful looks and voice, and loved that dance move of hers where she kicked forward and backward to the side while hopping on her other foot. I love Joan and I really don't like how they made her look so ugly and cruel with that largely inaccurate story about her in 1980's "Mommie dearest". Other great songs in this film include one of which looks like one of the first things ever filmed in color which was Charles King singing to a pretty girl under a blossom tree and then a group of more pretty girls in green skirts dancing, a second version of "Singing in the rain" which looked like Noah's ark and also a very early color bit, the songs "Swanee river", "Your mother and mine", "Take it off", and "You were meant for me" that was sung to the beautiful Anita Paige from "Broadway Melody". Ones I didn't care for were "The Italian trio", the one with a bunch of people in skeleton and Halloween type costumes, and Laurel and Hardy's skit was not one of their better ones and they have had some really good and funny ones. I didn't think "I'm the queen" was too good either, but I loved her long gown. I always love women's long gowns, wide and long skirts to the floor or hoop skirts, and floor length dresses of the early 1900s, 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. It's a shame how rarely you see any modern women today wearing the beautiful, classy, old fashioned feminine attire. Too many people today consider old fashioned a bad word, I consider it a great word.