Komedie / hudební, USA, 1934, 77 min.



Failed "boy wonder" director Jimmie Dale is given a job by opportunist J. Walter Delmar as an acting teacher at The Delmar Academy of Motion Picture and Dramatic Arts, which supplies instruction as long as its pupils provide money. One day, while Delmar is visited by Adrian Almont, a movie star who allows Delmar to use his name for advertising, pretty Alice Perkins arrives, accompanied by ice men Percy and Clarence, and asks to be admitted to the school. After a false start teaching Alice to act, Jimmie discovers during a party that night that she is a good singer. The next morning, Alice is given a ride to school by wealthy Frank Young, and when they arrive, Delmar and Adrian convince Frank to provide seventy-five thousand dollars for a picture to be directed by Jimmie and starring Adrian and Alice. Jimmie is informed about the shady deal, which involves his using forty-five thousand dollars for the picture and splitting the left-over money with Delmar and Adrian. Jimmie reluctantly agrees but is unaware that Delmar and Adrian intend to embezzle everything and set him up as the fall guy. At a rehearsal that night, Jimmie berates Alice for hours until she perfects her singing style, which later is a hit during filming. Jimmie has trouble with Adrian, however, when he arrogantly refuses his directions. Jimmie then talks with Delmar and Adrian and, when they ask for their cut of the production funds, tells them that all of the money is going into the film, despite their attempts to frame him. Soon after, Delmar tells the district attorney that Jimmie is embezzling the funds himself, but Jimmie's careful bookkeeping proves Delmar wrong, and suspicion falls on Delmar for several complaints about the school. Jimmie examines his budget and finds out that he must finish shooting the picture the next day, before he runs out of funds. Jimmie then tries to make up with Alice by asking her out, but finds that she already has a date with Adrian. At the restaurant that night, Adrian drunkenly tells Alice he intends to sabotage the picture by not showing up the next day. He prevents Alice from phoning Jimmie to warn him, and then takes her to his isolated home. Alice fends off his advances until he passes out, and when Clarence and Percy find her the next morning, the three of them take Adrian to the studio, arriving just as Jimmie is about to give up. Jimmie refuses to let Alice explain and rehearses the final number with himself playing Adrian's part. After the rehearsal, Adrian refuses to perform, and the exasperated Jimmie decks him. A cameraman films the fight and gives Jimmie the idea to use it in the picture as a novel ending. Pleased with the solution, Jimmie then finds out about Alice's attempts to save the picture and rushes to her dressing room. After he apologizes, the antagonistic sweethearts admit their feelings for each other and become engaged.
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