(93 min) Released 1937-09-30
Director: Victor Schertzinger
Stars: James Cagney, Evelyn Daw, William Frawley
Harland Dixon ... dance stager
Angela Blue ... choreographer (uncredited)
Genres: Comedy | Musical
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029588/
Watched online at Amazon Prime, saving me from having to find the disc in my Public Domain binder. Oh, no. The end credits listed dancers in a scene I don't remember. And on my BluRay player's app, Amazon doesn't show the video as you fast forward. So I had to pull out the dvd anyway. (BTW, the Amazon video quality was no better, and possibly a little worse, than my Treeline dvd.)
Cagney dancing is a great thing, and he works a staircase here as he will in Yankee Doodle Dandy ('42); see the dance beginning at 4 minutes in, lasts 2+ min. We get more dancing at the very end of the film (about t-2 minutes). At 39:20 starts a dance/comedy routine among the tramp steamer (his honeymoon ship) crew, which Cagney joins; duration 2.4 min.
The fight scene at about 28 min is fun. Philip Ahn as JC's Hollywood body man is written and played very well.
The quantity of dancing is insufficient to make my "worthwhile dancing" list. But it makes the movie better by its inclusion. He sings a little too.
Zion Meyers Productions, distr. Grand National, dir. Schertzinger; 6
