1h 11min | Comedy, Musical | 10 October 1941
Director: Edward F. Cline (as Edward Cline)
Stars: W.C. Fields, Gloria Jean, Leon Errol, Margaret Dumont
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033945/
Qualifies for Musical due to 4 songs sung by Gloria Jean, and 2 others sing 1 each.
This is another memorable WCF comedy: he's pitching his screenplay to a studio exec. In his script, he falls from great heights often. MD plays a woman who brought her daughter to a luxurious "nest" to avoid men (and all people, really). WCF falls into this nest, and falls into the "elevator" bucket (twice), and coerces a "friend" to fall out of the nest too. Absolutely preposterous, and fun.
On the disc is a 50 minute "vintage documentary" ('64) compiling a lot of scenes from his movies (and shorts?). Also good stuff. But not recommended as a musical. GJ's singing is nice, but insufficient if seeking genre beginning with M, unless M stands for Madcap. Previously rated, and concur now.
Universal, dir. Cline; 7
