Overly talkie and filled with more ham than an Easter dinner, this variation on "Stage Door" has a group of actors and actresses sharing rooms in a boarding house and promising to remain chaste until they succeed on Broadway. Little do they realize that there's a famous producer living there as house chef, and between all the silly romantic complications and truly annoying characterizations, nothing much happens.
Future superstars William Holden and Susan Hayward add some curiosity value to this and do fine, while the eternally youthful Eddie Bracken is easily confused with Donald O'Connor as the comic relief of the group. Mabel Paige is adorable as the dotty landlady, but Florence MacMichael will make you pray for temporary deafness as the non-stop chatty Muriel who deserves that drug that they give to cats to keep them from meowing constantly. Robert Benchley adds his droll comedy as the producer in disguise. Apparently, Paramount studios filmed this and sold it to United Artists for distribution. Something makes me think that they were not too sad to be rid of it.
Future superstars William Holden and Susan Hayward add some curiosity value to this and do fine, while the eternally youthful Eddie Bracken is easily confused with Donald O'Connor as the comic relief of the group. Mabel Paige is adorable as the dotty landlady, but Florence MacMichael will make you pray for temporary deafness as the non-stop chatty Muriel who deserves that drug that they give to cats to keep them from meowing constantly. Robert Benchley adds his droll comedy as the producer in disguise. Apparently, Paramount studios filmed this and sold it to United Artists for distribution. Something makes me think that they were not too sad to be rid of it.