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...time, the romance threatens to ruin the show, but the clear thinking of the producer, who is George White himself, saves it and brings happiness to a pair of lovers. In addition to the cast of principals headed by Vallee, Durante, Alice Faye, Adrienne Ames, Edwards and Ratoff, the picture presents three hundred of the much heralded "Scandal" beauties in a series of the most spectacular settings...
...leading male portrays a sap. Mr. Jack Oakie enacts this part with a naturalness that is commendable. The other roles shatter no illusions, with the exception of that charmingly and competently portrayed by Miss Ginger Rogers. It is true that Gregory Ratoff acts as though he were "casting artificial pearls before genuine swine," but then, as the producer in the plot, he is sitting pretty...
...bravely to a suave crooner (Russ Columbo). The plot's conventionality is really an advantage because it is unobtrusive framework for pleasant songs by Columbo, Cummings and Frances Williams, dances by the chorus of Tex Kaley's night club. Good shot: A frantically earnest dance director (Gregory Ratoff) urging his protegees to behave like elves...
Sweepings (RKO). Daniel Pardway (Lionel Barrymore) arrived in Chicago soon after Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over the lamp. He started a shop in the Loop, hired as general manager a smart Jew (Gregory Ratoff) who climbed across the sock counter out of the crowd at a sale. The shop grew into a huge department store called the Bazaar. Daniel Pardway's wife (Nan Sunderland) died before she had time to share Daniel's greatest disappointment: his children. The oldest. Gene, grew up to be a loose-life; the second son was a Tom Thumb...
Sweepings is worthwhile for Lionel Barrymore's full-length portrait of a tight-lipped tycoon and for a smaller but equally perfect study by Gregory Ratoff of the tycoon's jealous but sympathetic underling. Husband of Eugenie Leontovich, a well-known actress in Moscow before the War who acted in Manhattan choruses until Grand Hotel made her famous, Gregory Ratoff's success in the U. S. came a little later than his wife's but with equal suddenness. He was the producer in Once in a Lifetime; his appalling Russo-Semitic accent was what brought...