Glorifying the American Girl (1929) on Netflix
Passed19291h 35mComedyDramaMusical
Gloria Hughes wants a place in the Follies but sings the latest songs at a department store's sheet music counter. A vaudeville hoofer, Danny Miller, offers her a spot as his partner.
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Plot summary
Buddy, her childhood friend, plays the piano for Gloria Hughes while she sings the popular songs at a department store's sheet music counter. He is in love with her; she is set on a career in the Follies. The vaudeville hoofer Danny Miller spots her, and since his dancing partner Mooney has just left him, he asks Gloria to take her place. She agrees, seeing her chance to reach New York City. There she finds that Miller expects her to sleep with him, and that he has made it the price of making her a star. Soon a representative of Ziegfeld notices her.
Cast
- Dan Healyas 'Miller'
- Kaye Renardas 'Mooney'
- Edward Crandallas Buddy
- Norman Brokenshireas Norman Brookshire - Radio Announcer(uncredited)
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- Desha Delteilas Dancer in Bubble Dance Sequence(uncredited)
- Charles B. Dillinghamas Charles Dillingham(uncredited)
- Otto Kahnas Otto Kahn(uncredited)
- Ring Lardneras Self (uncredited)
- Singing and Dancing Chorus of Seventy-Five Glorified Beautiesas Chorus Members
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Glorifying the American Girl (1929)
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- Glorifying the American Girl is one of the first talkies in which the word "damn" is spoken: Sarah Edwards says it twice, and it comes up repeatedly in a skit with Eddie Cantor, Louis Sorin and Lew Hearn. Credit for the first talkie to use the word usually goes wrongly to Pygmalion or Gone with the Wind, though Coquette used it in April 1929.
- The black-and-white prints of Glorifying the American Girl shown on television were made in the 1950s and cut down to 87 minutes, with sequences removed because of their Pre-Code content, such as nudity. The UCLA Film and Television Archive later restored the film to 96 minutes with its original Technicolor sequences.
