Word: janet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High Society Blues (Fox). How little Janet Gaynor's success in character studies of wistfully romantic young girls depended on physical attractiveness is illustrated by this unsuccessful musicomedy. Her coy little voice and frail attempts to assume the spontaneity and vitality proper to a prima donna never give the story what it needs. It is all about a rich young girl who was supposed to marry a count she did not love and who finally eloped with Charles Farrell in a white Ford. Silliest line (by Farrell, after a tedious love-scene spent entirely in singing the theme-song...
Before getting into any complications it is necessary to make it clear that this reviewer is tremendously prejudiced toward Janet Gaynor: which amounts to the fact that he overlooks her faults unblushingly and emphasises her virtues. With that as a premise it is possible to go on and say that "High Society Blues" is a thoroughly enjoyable picture...
...share of effete Eastern gawdiness. The singing by Miss Gaynor and Mr. Farrell is every way similar to their efforts in "Sunny Side Up" while the plot is just another version of Cinderella reversed or the Perfume Counter dream. But the point is that this is not Ibsen but Janet Gaynor assisted by Charles Farrell...
...care to emphasize the most atractive points of his stars so that at the end one is given a most tremendous impression of their capabilities. But out of it all one fact remains, the plot was only fair, the characterization was caricature, the music not startling but it was Janet Gaynor and consequently an excellent movie...
...dancing girls issue from two huge shoes; there is a baby carriage big enough to hold a dozen squallers at a time, and a birthday cake that dwarfs the actors. The story involves short vaudeville acts by such stars as Ann Pennington, Tom Patricola, Warner Baxter, Charles Farrell, Janet Gaynor, George Olsen, J. Harold Murray. They put on a benefit performance-no worse than most of the cinema minstrel shows released recently-this time arranged for the destitute skipper of a showboat. Best shots: a riverboat swinging into a Mississippi wharf; a train racing along the Hudson River...