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Monday, October 20, 2014

Breakfast in Hollywood (1946)

An American musical romantic comedy directed by Harold D. Schuster, starring Hedda Hopper, Andy Russell, Spike Jones and Nat King Cole.
Characters in different scenarios all attend the same radio show. An old woman leaves her dog at home, but has fainting spells on the way there and after the show. A young man gets a ride into Hollywood with the host and meets a young woman at the show. Another man is trying to cheat on his wife and leading on a pair of young women.
This was very old fashioned and sappy. The plot was presented clearly and held my attention, but I thought it was a little on the sit-commy side. The characters were identifiable and interesting. The audio had lots of pops, crackles and dead air hiss (sorry, no snaps). The video was alright and visible. As I said, the style was sit-commish. The pacing was a little too slow for me, with the musical numbers not really doing anything for the story. There was a "colored" jazz band (pictured) who were all very good at their instruments and at this date, they had no way to fake it with a backing track. I'm rating this poor for being antiquated and not liking it. You might want to watch it if you're over 70 years old.

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