GLORIFYING THE AMERICAN GIRL(1929)Mary Eaton, Eddie Cantor & Helen Morgan |Musical |B&W|Nostalgic Flick

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Glorifying the American Girl is a 1929 American pre-Code musical comedy film produced by Florenz Ziegfeld that highlights Ziegfeld Follies performers. The last third of the film, which was filmed in early Technicolor, is basically a Follies production, with appearances by Rudy Vallee, Helen Morgan, and Eddie Cantor.

Rex Beach was paid $35,000 for the original story.

The script for the film was written by J.P. McEvoy and Millard Webb and directed by John W. Harkrider and Millard Webb. The songs were written by Irving Berlin, Walter Donaldson, Rudolf Friml, James E. Hanley, Larry Spier and Dave Stamper. The film is in the public domain, and many prints exhibited on television are in black-and-white only, and do not include pre-Code material, such as nudity.

Synopsis

The plot involves a young woman, Gloria Hughes, who wants to be in the Follies, but in the meantime is making ends meet by working at a department store's sheet music department, where she sings the latest hits. She is accompanied on piano by her childhood boyfriend Buddy, who is in love with her, despite her single-minded interest in her career. When a vaudeville performer, Danny Miller, asks her to join him as his new partner, she sees it as an opportunity to make her dream come true. Upon arriving in New York City, our heroine finds out that her new partner is only interested in sleeping with her and makes this a condition of making her a star. Soon, however, she is discovered by a representative of Ziegfeld. Though she loses Buddy to Barbara, another girl he met while Gloria traveled to New York, and who was injured for a time by a car running her over when Buddy went off with Gloria, Gloria eventually triumphs on stage.

Cast & Crew

Johnny Weissmuller with an unidentified actress
Mary Eaton as Gloria Hughes
Dan Healy as Danny Miller
Kaye Renard as Mooney
Edward Crandall as Buddy Moore
Gloria Shea as Barbara (billed as Olive Shea)
Sarah Edwards as Mrs. Hughes
Lou Hearn as tailor shop customer

Directed by:
John W. Harkrider
Millard Webb
Written by:
J.P. McEvoy (story)
Millard Webb
Produced by: Florenz Ziegfeld
Starring:
Mary Eaton
Dan Healy
Cinematography: George J. Folsey (Technicolor)
Music by:
Irving Berlin
Walter Donaldson
Rudolf Friml
James E. Hanley
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: December 7, 1929
Running Time: 96 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English