According to IMDb, this film originally was supposed to be a bigger budgeted prestige film starring one of its huge stars at the time, William Haines (he's all but forgotten today but was one of MGM's biggest box office stars). However, the plot was rather bizarre and the studio apparently lacked confidence in the project and so that is why the folk who star in it are mostly no-name actors. The only guy in the credits that you might recognize is Cliff Edwards...who was later the voice of Jimminy Cricket. Still, it must have been a prestige picture to some extent, as there is a Two-Color Technicolor dance sequences in the film...and color was still rather expensive at the time and relatively rare.
The story is very familiar--but perhaps not so familiar back in 1930. In fact, the story is so similar, it's practically a giant cliché. A nice young man meets a girl and they fall in love...though neither knows it. The boy suddenly makes good and becomes a bit star...and his head swells to enormous proportions! Now, he's forgotten about the girl and is in love with a big-time singing star. Can the fat-head manage to get his head straight and realize what he's had all along or will he just ruin his life due to his incredible stupidity?!
Charles Kaley's singing in the lead isn't bad--particularly his rendition of "Should I Reveal". However, the woman who then sang it was just god-awful and listening to it was pure torture! The story is okay...just too familiar. Plus, Kaley's character was just too stupid and unlikable--even more fat-headed and selfish than it should have been. As a result, the film clearly has suffered from time. While it might have been pretty good for 1930, today only the most long-suffering viewer (like me!) would bother finishing the movie. Not bad...but not all that good as well. Plus the film's ending seemed to take forever to finally arrive...
The story is very familiar--but perhaps not so familiar back in 1930. In fact, the story is so similar, it's practically a giant cliché. A nice young man meets a girl and they fall in love...though neither knows it. The boy suddenly makes good and becomes a bit star...and his head swells to enormous proportions! Now, he's forgotten about the girl and is in love with a big-time singing star. Can the fat-head manage to get his head straight and realize what he's had all along or will he just ruin his life due to his incredible stupidity?!
Charles Kaley's singing in the lead isn't bad--particularly his rendition of "Should I Reveal". However, the woman who then sang it was just god-awful and listening to it was pure torture! The story is okay...just too familiar. Plus, Kaley's character was just too stupid and unlikable--even more fat-headed and selfish than it should have been. As a result, the film clearly has suffered from time. While it might have been pretty good for 1930, today only the most long-suffering viewer (like me!) would bother finishing the movie. Not bad...but not all that good as well. Plus the film's ending seemed to take forever to finally arrive...