Check out that fun cast! Dancers fred astair and vera ellen. The awesome marjorie main (ma kettle, the women), the rough tough keenan wynn, and alice pearce (abner, abner there's somethin' funny going on over there!). Unfortunately, it's a musical. Mister bigshot playboy charlie hill falls for angela, a prim and proper mission house worker in the bowery, which was the rough part of nyc. Charlie will need to clean up his act if he can pass muster with her. And even for his own aunt lily, who doesn't approve of his fast and loose style. A fun currier and ives calendar bit, where they pull down various life size prints on pulleys. That must have been a huge hit back in the day. So many double entendres, slightly dirty jokes, in spite of angela's squeaky clean image. In luscious, mgm technicolor. It's pretty good, if you can stand all the repetitive song and dance numbers. I would have preferred more dialogue from all those great names in the cast, but it's good! Directed by charles walters... was nominated for "lili". This appears to have been a successful broadway show, with runs in 1897, 1900, and 1921. And fragments of the silent film from 1919 survive, with marion davies.
Review of The Belle of New York
