Basically an enjoyable, if unbelievable story of carnival side show workers who end up as the toast of Broadway in a bizarre scheme to present leading lady Lupe Velez as a Turkish princess. Frank Morgan, just a few years short of playing Ziegfeld's rival in a carnival in The Great Ziegfeld, here plays a Follies producer, much like Ziegfeld himself who is suckered into presenting the Velez as his newest discovery. It is truly unbelievable to see these signs show threads on the big city slickers of Broadway into getting away with this scheme, but when it is done in such an entertaining fashion and with such great performers as Lee Tracy and Lupe Velez in the lead roles, with fine supported by Eugene Pallete and Morgan, it ends up being pretty enjoyable.
Lupe Velez had a fine singing voice, and having already sung in a few movies, is obviously not being dubbed. The strange thing however, is that her Mexican accent disappears Having introduced the Peanut Vendor song in Cuban Love Song a few years before, and later singing in the Mexican Spitfire series, you have a definite proof indeed for singing. She was a delightful comic, and here plays her unusually temperamental spitfire, at one point slapping Tracy then bursting into tears when he retaliates without hesitation by immediately slapping her back. Morgan plays his typical flibetty gibette character, becoming Velez's sugar daddy but he doesn't stand a chance opposite the fast talking Lee Tracy.
Eugene Palette is very funny with his gravelly voiced character, trying a bizarre publicity stunt while riding through the streets of Manhattan with an obviously fake beard, and apparently in the buff. the last are frequent, and if you can get past the whole con game scheme against seemingly smarter Broadway types, you will find a lot of enjoyment in this.
Lupe Velez had a fine singing voice, and having already sung in a few movies, is obviously not being dubbed. The strange thing however, is that her Mexican accent disappears Having introduced the Peanut Vendor song in Cuban Love Song a few years before, and later singing in the Mexican Spitfire series, you have a definite proof indeed for singing. She was a delightful comic, and here plays her unusually temperamental spitfire, at one point slapping Tracy then bursting into tears when he retaliates without hesitation by immediately slapping her back. Morgan plays his typical flibetty gibette character, becoming Velez's sugar daddy but he doesn't stand a chance opposite the fast talking Lee Tracy.
Eugene Palette is very funny with his gravelly voiced character, trying a bizarre publicity stunt while riding through the streets of Manhattan with an obviously fake beard, and apparently in the buff. the last are frequent, and if you can get past the whole con game scheme against seemingly smarter Broadway types, you will find a lot of enjoyment in this.