Main Cast: Stanley Smith, Ginger Rogers, Charlie Ruggles, Helen Carrington
Release Year: 1930
Country: US
Run Time: 85 minutes
Plot
In this musical comedy, two partners in the garter business fight for control and decide to play a round of poker to settle their differences. The winner will get to run the company for a year while the loser will serve as his butler. Meanwhile a pretty girl falls in love with one of their sons. Songs include: "Everything Will Happen for the Best" (B.G. DeSylva, Lewis E. Gensler), "Brother, Just Laugh It Off" (Arthur Schwartz, Ralph Rainger), "It Seems to Me", "I'm Afraid of You" (Dick Howard, Rainger), "I Love the Girls in My Own Peculiar Way" (E.Y. Harburg, Henry Souvain). ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
William Saulter - Art Director, Caroline Putnam - Costume Designer, Fred Newmeyer - Director, Barney Rogan - Editor, Al Goodman - Musical Direction/Supervision, William Steiner Jr. - Cinematographer, Lawrence Schwab - Producer, Frank Mandel - Producer, Laurence Schwab - Producer, Frank Mandel - Dialogue Writer, Frank Mandel - Screenwriter, Buddy G. DeSylva - From Musical by, Edward H. Peple - Play Author
Based upon a stage musical by Buddy DeSylva, Lewis Gensler, and Laurence Schwab, the storyline loosely concerns a rivalry between two businessmen that results in a game of poker. Whoever loses the game becomes the winner's servant for a year.
Making her very first film appearance in an uncredited bit part is famed tap dancer Eleanor Powell, whose career in musicals wouldn't take off for another five years. Powell was appearing on Broadway in a show entitled Follow Thru at the time, and a segment of the show was filmed for the movie.
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