A theater director is putting on a stage musical and a new actress joins his group.
Mediocre, but moderately entertaining. The "pre-code" element comes in the form of the lead actress being involved with 2 men: 1 financially backs the play and the other is her vaudeville partner. The plot was not very interesting to me, but reminded me of Me and Orson Welles (2008) and Topsy Turvy (1999). I'm not really into the "getting ready for a theater performance" plot. The characters were acted well and some showed some depth. Check out the girl with the monacle (image). Watching black and white 4:3 video again after so long is different. Way back then, the camerawork was really obvious and basic, but showed everything going on very clearly. Another time difference was the audio. Everyone was almost announcing their dialogue. I could hear all of it, but there was not much variety. There must be something between announcing and whispering which makes sense... Oh yeah! The 1970s and 1980s had reasonable audio. If you liked the other 2 films I mentioned above, this would be good to watch. Otherwise, eh... I rate it o.k. because it wasn't very bad or very good.
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