Modern Screen (Dec 1935 - Nov 1936)

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An excellent supporting cast is headed by Helen Broderick, Victor Moore, Eric Blore, Betty Furness and Georges Metaxa. ***Sing. Baby, Sing (20th Century-Fox) You can hardly call this a surprise hit with a cast headed by Adolphe Menjou, Alice Faye, Ted Healy, Patsy Kelly, Gregory Ratoff and the Ritz Brothers, but you can definitely call it one of the funniest musical pictures since the advent of talkies. To begin with, it's a pictorial chronicle of the widely publicized cross-country love flight of a well-known star of stage and screen and his alleged lady love. ' In the cinema version — or shall we call it coincidence?— Adolphe Menjou is a slightly alcoholic, Shakespearian screen idol who is convinced, by the manipulations of an alert agent, that Alice Faye is his Juliet. Alice is a blues singer related to the Capulets only through newspaper headlines, but when the agent puts her through her paces, "Sing, Baby, Sing" becomes pure hilarity every second of its unreeling. Highlights are Adolphe Menjou's superb comedy, topping anything he's ever done; the swell comedy team of Ted Healy and Patsy Kelly ; Gregory Ratoff's inimitable accent ; The Ritz Brothers and their Harry Richman and Ted Lewis impersonations and their operatic rendition of "The Music Goes 'Round"; and the song, "When Did You Leave Heaven?" Preview Postscript This marks Alice Faye's camera debut as on "amber blonde" — light brown and orange to the cynics. She polled oil of the men ot the studio to find out if they liked it better than her blonde locks. Some of them didn't, but Michoel Whalen did, so that was that. The Faye "flgger," in case you're interested, is due to ice-skating. She held the amateur championship for women in New York for five years . . . Ted Healy was married to actress Betty Hickman the day before beginning work on this film. They flew to Yuma, Arizona, for the ceremony. Which explains Ted's hard work on this picture, for according to Ted himself he was never so in earnest about work before he had the little woman to impress . . . The wisecrack Ingest gal on the set wos Veronica Kelly — Patsy to youse. *★* Lady Be Careful (Paramount) Surprisingly enough, this has turned out to be very commendable screen fare. It's been many a movie moon since Lew Ayres has been in a worth while film, but he . makes up for everything with his excellent performance here. And Mary Carlisle has developed overnight into as pleasing a comedienne as we have seen for some time. Benny Baker and Larry Crabbe turn in good performances and the rest of the cast is well selected in every instance. Taken from "Sailor, Beware," the play deals with the same gob who becomes the pride of the navy through his irresistible, though totally unsuspected, sex appeal. Sailor Ayres is the one who doesn't suspect his own charms, so when Benny Baker bets Larry Crabbe, a Marine, that Lew can have "Stonewall" Jackson (Mary Carlisle) madly in love with him in no time, the complications set in. Sinking the Japanese fleet looks simpler to our hero. The progress of the romance from then on involves a continual series of hilarious situations. You'll get your quota of laughs, sighs and everything you expect from a good movie when you see this one. Preview Postscript This role marked a triumphant milestone in the life of Benny Baker. It's the first time he's ever had a stooge. Having a stooge all to yourself might not seem so much to lots of people, but if, like Benny, you'd been a stooge to other people all your life you'd appreciate the change. Joe PloskI is Benny's man-of-all-work now . . . Lew Ayres started the picture looking pretty glum. Divorces In Hollywood do get some folks down, popular opinion notwithstanding. But after doing a few scenes with Mary Carlisle and playing o couple of sets of ping-pong with her between shots, Lew began to brighten. Some of their better scenes, as a result, aren't all octing . . . Wesley Barry surprised every one in the cost by announcing one day that he was celebrating his tenth wedding anniversary. It seemed to most of the company that Wes was still the freckle-faced youngster which he portrayed for so many years on the screen . . . Larry Buster Crabbe became a proud father during the picture's production. Buster was Olympic champ for the swimming events in 1932, and this is practically the first time when brown wasn't the main requisite for his celluloid appearances. *** Piccadilly Jim (M-G-M) Here's a load of nonsense, strictly in the high comedy department, which will more than satisfy the most particular audiences. Especially gratifying is the fact that M-G-M has, after all these years, seen fit to give Robert Montgomery a role worthy of his talents. It will make audiences forget his rather negative portrayals in "Petticoat Fever" and "Trouble for Two." In this one he's a caricaturist for a London paper and the sole support of his expensive playboy-actor father, Frank Morgan. The playboy tactics inherited from dear old dad soon lead to Montgomery's dismissal from the paper. Things look black until he clicks with a syndicated cartoon strip based on the antics of a title-seeking American family. The strip is a riot all over England and sends the originals into an embarrassed retreat to America. Much to Mr. M.'s surprise and chagrin, he discovers that the gal (Madge Evans) he loves is a daughter of the family. The story itself 106