The Duke Is Tops

The Duke Is Tops is a 1938 American musical film released by Million Dollar Productions and directed by William Nolte. The film was later released in 1943 under the title The Bronze Venus, with Lena Horne given top billing.

Duke Davis is a stage show promoter in love with Ethel Andrews, a popular singer in his company dubbed the Bronze Venus. Duke finds out that bigtime promoters from New York City want to propel Ethel into the big leagues, but Ethel, out of loyalty and love for Duke, refuses to leave his smalltime show. Duke, in a selfless act, orchestrates a deception to force Ethel to leave his show in order to better her career.However, the loss of the Bronze Venus causes Dukes own career to collapse and he soon finds himself working on a travelling medicine show where he goes from town to town, introducing a series of specialty musical acts and helping to sell Doc Dorandos allpurpose elixir. But when he hears that Ethels New York gig is a flop, Duke goes to New York where he is reunited with her. Soon after, Duke combines his stage show, the medicine show and Ethels singing into a top nightclub act. ........

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