Glorifying the American Girl
About Glorifying the American Girl
Gloria Hughes wants the Follies and, for now, sings sheet music in a department store while Buddy plays piano. Vaudeville performer Danny Miller offers a partnership, then tells her in New York that she has to sleep with him. A Ziegfeld man finds her. Buddy takes up with Barbara, who is hit by a car, and Gloria loses him and still gets her number on the Ziegfeld stage.
Cast & crew
More about Glorifying the American Girl
John W. Harkrider and Millard Webb directed, and Webb wrote it with J. P. McEvoy. Florenz Ziegfeld produced, with Monta Bell also credited, and Paramount released it on December 7, 1929. Rex Beach was paid $35,000 for the original story.
Themes
Look
George J. Folsey photographed the film. The last third, a Follies performance, is in early Technicolor.
Music
Irving Berlin, Walter Donaldson, Rudolf Friml, and others wrote the songs. Mary Eaton sings Baby Face, Helen Morgan sings What Wouldn't I Do for That Man?, and a band plays Berlin's Blue Skies.
Preservation
UCLA restored the film to 96 minutes, with the Technicolor sequences. Many television copies are the cut 87-minute black-and-white version made in the 1950s. The picture is in the public domain in the United States.
Notes
- Mary Eaton plays Gloria. Dan Healy plays Danny Miller. Edward Crandall plays Buddy.
- Rudy Vallée, Helen Morgan, and Eddie Cantor appear in the Follies section. Johnny Weissmuller is in an uncredited non-speaking shot. Mayor Jimmy Walker, Texas Guinan, and Irving Berlin also appear.
- Black-and-white television prints run 87 minutes and drop pre-Code shots, including nudity.
Also available
- Internet Archive (GlorifyingTheAmericanGirl_119)
- Wikimedia Commons (Glorifying the American Girl (1929) by Millard Webb.webm)
