Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot is of about as much importance as is usual in this type of film, and if musical vaudeville is tops in entertainment value at the present. "Artists and Models" will posses definite appeal to the moviegoer because the picture is better than average in its line...
...look too closely into the plot, you will see the unnatural spectacle of a hotel executive, willy-nilly backer of a play, making savage efforts to scotch the play because the producers have been concealing from him their mad shifts and hair-breadth escapes from destruction. But the dangers springing from his violent disposition make the real play all the more exciting, and the comedy-writer's license takes care of the rest. So we see Gordon Miller, hare-brained producer, catching hold of Leo Davis, rustic playwright, rifling his pockets, pawning his typewriter, putting him to bed on account...
...play is expressed in the title. The substance of the play is the ludicrous madness of the Sycamores, and here it is that the genius of Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman finds its full play. There is very little serious relief between one laugh and the next. The plot of the play has to do with the skepticism of one of the daughters. She thinks that she'll have to give up her beau because his family is decidedly different from the Sycamores. But he is soon won over to the happy-go-lucky system, and his and Grandpa...
...Ritz Brothers, they haven't added any new stuff. Which is not to say they are declining but simply that they haven't improved. Familiarity breeds disinteredness, and certainly these three zanies are in their specialty number easier to resist than they were a year ago. Funniest is their plot work. Best of all their entrance, when, seated at a piano, one suddenly arises, and the others slide off an upset bench onto the floor...
...rest, the plot is girl meets boy, girl gets boy, boy looses girl, winn(ing)er take all, or something to that effect. As the successful Broadway producer, Charles Winninger turns in the most believable performance. He is the peg from which are hung the story's numerous coats and vests. Round him revolve the successful musicomedy author, Don Ameche, the would-be writer of tragedy, Alice Faye, the nigger in the woodpile, Gypsy Rose Lee, alias Louise Hovick, stooges just stooges, the Ritz Brothers, and incidentally Rubinoff and his violin...