Children of Pleasure

Children of Pleasure is a 1930 American PreCode MGM musical comedy film directed by Harry Beaumont originally released with Technicolor sequences. It was adapted from Crane Wilburs stage success of 1929 The Song Writer.

The film is an adaptation of a play that riffed on the reallife relationship between songwriter Irving Berlin and Long Island socialite Ellin Mackay, which was all over the gossip columns in the late 1920s. Mackays millionaire father cut her off and did not speak to her for years because, after a long courtship, she married Berlin, who was Jewish. Unlike the fickle debutante in the film, Mackay stayed with Berlin, and their marriage lasted over sixty years.The movie was originally premiered and released with Technicolor sequences in the summer of 1930. One reviewer noted that the revue scenes filmed in Technicolor being particularly lavish. These color sequences were later replaced with a blackandwhite version that had been filmed simultaneously because the backlash against musicals which occurred in the autumn of 1930 made the expense of printing color prints superfluous and frivolous. Only this blackandwhite general release version currently exists. The same fate was shared by another of MGMs major musicals, Cecil B. DeMilles Madam Satan which was released during the same time period. A segment of one of the Technicolor sequences survives in an MGM short subject in color titled Roast Beef and Movies 1934. ........

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