Owners and show girls of the bankrupt Club Ballé are mistaken for the Academy Ballet of America and are off to Paris to compete in an International Dance Exposition.Owners and show girls of the bankrupt Club Ballé are mistaken for the Academy Ballet of America and are off to Paris to compete in an International Dance Exposition.Owners and show girls of the bankrupt Club Ballé are mistaken for the Academy Ballet of America and are off to Paris to compete in an International Dance Exposition.
Edward Brophy
- Mike Coogan
- (as Ed Brophy)
Georges Renavent
- Gendarme
- (as George Renevant)
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
- Doorman
- (as Eddie Anderson)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaTerry and company are depicted as arriving in France aboard the French liner SS Normandie. It entered service in 1935 and was the fastest liner across the Atlantic, only to be later surpassed by the RMS Queen Mary and finally the SS United States. She remains the most powerful steam turbo-electric passenger ship ever built. She was seized in New York City at the beginning of WW2 and had begun to be converted into a troopship when she caught fire and capsized in February 1942. All plans to return her to service failed to materialize and she was scrapped in 1946.
- GoofsWhen Mona is in LeBrec's office filling out the forms, the hand shown writing on the forms has short fingernails and no nail polish, whereas Gloria Dickson has long nails and is wearing very dark polish.
- Quotes
Duke 'Dukie' Dennis: Oh, a lady!
Mona Verdivere: Well, what'd you expect, a harem?
- Crazy creditsThe letters WB in the opening logo sparkle as if made of actual gold.
- ConnectionsEdited into Musical Memories (1946)
Featured review
Some good music, numbers staged by Busby Berkeley, and mixed comedy make for passable entertainment.
The comedy here is supplied by Hugh Herbert, Edward Brophy, Allen Jenkins, Fritz Feld, Curt Bois and a sextet called the Schnickelfritz Band. I never could fully understand the appeal of Hugh Herbert, or any of the comedians who use stupidity for laughs. (Marie Wilson and Gomer Pyle come to mind.) Here, Herbert gets a wire telling him he's hired the wrong group to come to Paris for a dance exposition and is about to call out the riot squad when the bogus pair he hired convinces him, through a talking dog (via ventriloquism by Mabel Todd) that they are the right group. Now, some may think that's funny, but I prefer the savviness of Brophy, who always knows what's going on and whose comedy comes from his reactions and situations he's placed in. Here, he's a gangster patron of ballet, who cries at its beauty but has no hesitation in eliminating the enemies of his friends. He's dispatched to do just that in Paris and befriends Allen Jenkins, unaware that Jenkins the one he's looking for. Now that's funny. Brophy also has the face and demeanor which makes me laugh just by looking at him, a reaction I also get with Woody Allen. Bridging the musical and comedy aspects of this film is the Schnickelfritz band, a precursor of Spike Jones, doing some funny numbers while in funny positions. There's even a washboard in their musical instrument collection. Busby Berkeley creates and directs all the numbers in the movie. Although it's not his best work, it is mostly due to his constant battle with Warner Bros. to get bigger budgets for his numbers, something of which he complained about often. Still, they're fun to watch. A giant Navy hat engulfs the two dozen gorgeous chorus girls in what is the most spectacular musical sequence in the movie. "I Wanna Go Back to Bali" number was also extensively staged and equally as good. Rudy Vallee was top-billed and sings four of the songs in the movie and Rosemary Lane was the love interest, singing a couple of songs too. The plot is routine, with an on-again, off-again romance and a suspenseful ending which has the group about to be deported before they even perform in the contest.
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- Art-22
- Oct 26, 1998
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- Also known as
- Golddiggers in Paris
- Filming locations
- New York City, New York, USA(various establishing shots of Broadway, Statue of Liberty, etc.)
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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