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...punches, tries to rescue his sister (Helen Mack) from two drunks. When he ducks a punch from one of the drunks, it knocks out the other, who turns out to be Middleweight Champion "Speed"' MacFarland. Acclaimed for the knockout, Burleigh is urged by MacFarland's manager (Adolphe Menjou) to try prizefighting professionally. He accepts, to raise money to help cure Agnes, his ailing milkwagon horse. The story that follows is what hundreds of similar farces have taught cinemaddicts to expect, but the gags are new and Director Leo McCarey keeps them sputtering across the screen at firecracker speed...
...story which these production numbers interrupt, more witty and ingenious than its predecessors, shows a pair of rascally theatrical entrepreneurs (Adolphe Menjou and Joe Cawthorn) engaged in fleecing a stingy dowager (Alice Brady) who hires them to produce a charity show on a shoestring. Dick Powell, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert and Dorothy Dare appear in their usual capacities, help put the production on a grander scale than anything ever seen outside a Warner sound stage. Trick shot: an unidentified tap dancer's feet photographed from below, through a glass floor...
Dick Powell plays with charm and appeal. He is supported by winsome Gloria Stuart, who seems to grow more beautiful in each succeeding picture. Adolphe Menjou takes the part of the eccentric producer who displays more loquaciousness than money to Grant Mitchell, the irate manager of the ultra fashionable Wentworth Plaza resort hotel. Glenda Farrell again inherits the role of the gold-digger who sets her cap for Hugh Herbert, an idle multi-millionaire with a penchant for writing monograms and collecting antique snuff boxes. Alice Brady, as the close-fisted millionaire mother of Gloria Stuart and Frank McHugh, does...
There was a time when the movies once produced a good newspaper editor for a feature picture. That long since departed day occurred when Adolphe Menjou played the part of Managing Editor in "The Front Page," and did an unexpectedly fine job. But that was only once, and the movies forget easily. Today they have put their man of all work, Clark Gable, into the role of supposedly hard-boiled city editor. The movies have always tried hard to make him a Jack-of-all-Trades and have succeeded, as is inevitable, in making him master of none. Clark...
...will have plenty of money. The Mighty Barnum (Twentieth Century) introduces its hero (Wallace Beery) as the proprietor of a Manhattan general store, busily trading lightning rods for three-headed frogs while a friend has delirium tremens in Mrs. Barnum's bed. As soon as Bailey Walsh (Adolphe Menjou) is able to stand up, he and Barnum buy a livery stable with Mrs. Barnum's savings. There, with "George Washington's 169-year-old nurse" as their star attraction, they start The American Museum...