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...break the bank for $228,000. Luckless loser in Hi Diddle Diddle is birdbrained Mrs. Prescott (Billie Burke) who claims she has disposed of the family fortune just as her daughter Janie (Martha Scott) is about to marry a sailor, Sonny Phyffe (Dennis O'Keefe). Father Phyffe (Adolphe Menjou) is the raffish Samaritan deputed to recoup Mrs. Prescott's family fortune by breaking the bank at a gambling casino...
...torch-singing accomplice is Gypsy Rose Lee's little sister, June Havoc. The comedy is also complicated by Cinemactor Menjou's love life and the fact that each new crisis keeps postponing Sailor Phyffe's shore leave until all that is left for his honeymoon is a matter of minutes...
...good fast farce, well cast, well acted. But highlight of Hi Diddle Diddle is the return to the U.S. movies, in a comedy role, of Pola Negri, fabulous vamp of the Rudolph Valentino era. Cinemactress "Negri plays a Wagnerian diva (the soprano voice is dubbed in) married to Adolphe Menjou. Clothed in sumptuous black & white, Pola is as vivacious and comely in comedy as she was as a glamor girl. Slapstick permits her to be as violent as ever. When her accompanist in the picture accuses her of "bellowing like a cow," the temperamental tigress fetches him a slap...
Despite the apparently amazing information that Latin Americans have almost the same traits as the homo sapiens of the California Basin, Hollywood has misrepresented South America once again. It looks like international libel laws should be set up, especially among Good Neighbours. In patios and skyscrapers ex-gaucho Adolphc Menjou putters dismally through various schemes to make his daughter, Rita, fall in love, but the plot stops there...
...Were Never Lovelier (Rita Hayworth, Fred Astaire, Adolphe Menjou; TIME...