Conceited actor Emery Slade, on a mission to recruit a Broadway star for Fox, picks unknown Julie Clarke instead.Conceited actor Emery Slade, on a mission to recruit a Broadway star for Fox, picks unknown Julie Clarke instead.Conceited actor Emery Slade, on a mission to recruit a Broadway star for Fox, picks unknown Julie Clarke instead.
Robert Adler
- Studio Gate Guard
- (uncredited)
Erville Alderson
- Emery's Neighbor
- (uncredited)
Louis Bacigalupi
- Masseur
- (uncredited)
Joe Bautista
- Filipino
- (uncredited)
George Beranger
- Waiter
- (uncredited)
John Berkes
- Marshall
- (uncredited)
Ralph Brooks
- Man Sleeping on Plane
- (uncredited)
Helen Brown
- Esther
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaCrossman's office is a replica of producer Darryl F. Zanuck's.
- Quotes
Mrs. Schlaghammer: You! You! Just who do you think you are?
Emery Slade: I know who I am, Mrs. Schlaghammer. What's more, I know who my father was. And that, around here, is a unique distinction.
- ConnectionsReferenced in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)
- SoundtracksDancing in the Dark
(uncredited)
Music by Arthur Schwartz
Lyrics by Howard Dietz
Sung by chorus behind credits
Performed by Betsy Drake (dubbed by Bonnie Lou Williams)
Played often in the score
Featured review
In the dark is right
William Powell became exceedingly picky about roles late in his career, so it's a mystery why he chose this one. The guise of a conceited, self-centered has-been movie star gives him no chance to show off his finely honed light comedy style, and his character's conversion to a good sport taxes the talents of even this actor. One of several Hollywood-looks-at-Hollywood mid-budget musicals of the year, it's hampered by 20th Century Fox's relentless self-promotion and too few musical numbers. Even the ones that are there are exceedingly modest, perhaps because Betsy Drake is obviously dubbed and no great shakes as a dancer, either. The feeble screenplay presents her as the answer to the Hollywood musical's prayers, but she comes across as a nice kid who probably shouldn't be in movies. A great Schwartz-Dietz stage score gets trammeled; most of these songs were presented to far better effect a few years hence, in MGM's "The Band Wagon."
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- marcslope
- Apr 22, 2003
Details
- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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