Glorifying the American Girl

Glorifying the American Girl is a 1929 Precode musical comedy film produced by Florenz Ziegfeld that highlights Ziegfeld Follies performers. The last third of the film which was filmed in early Technicolor is basically a Follies production, with cameo appearances by Rudy Vallee, Helen Morgan, and Eddie Cantor.

The plot involves a young woman Mary Eaton who wants to be in the Follies, but in the meantime is making ends meet by working at a department stores sheet music department, where she sings the latest hits. She is accompanied on piano by her childhood boyfriend Edward Crandall, who is in love with her, despite her singleminded interest in her career. When a vaudeville performer Dan Healy asks her to join him as his new partner, she sees it as an opportunity to make her dream come true. Upon arriving in New York City, our heroine finds out that her new partner is only interested in sleeping with her and makes this a condition of making her a star. Soon, however, she is discovered by a representative of Ziegfeld.The blackandwhite prints currently shown on television, with a cutdown running time of 87 minutes, were made in the 1950s and have a number of sequences cut due to their PreCode content, i.e. nudity, etc. The film was restored, to the length of 96 minutes, with the original Technicolor sequences, by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. ........

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