The phone has not stopped ringing all afternoon, so I didn't get very far into my entertainment this afternoon. And what was it?
Nope, not THE RAINMAKER. Not LADY IN A CAGE. Not any DVD at all.
I pulled HOLLYWOOD REVUE OF 1929 off the shelf and watched it (or about 45 minutes of it). I haven't watched it in a couple of years.
Talking of Tommy Tune's staging of THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES, there are very strong indications that Mr. Tune got some inspriation for his levels choreography for "Willamania" and his hat-clap choreography for "Favorite Son" from some chorus numbers in this old, almost forgotten early talkie.
It's primitive, of course, but I find it great fun seeing stars like Marie Dressler, Marion Davies, and Bessie Love do their best with the mostly second-rate material.
I also came up and read about the film in the sensational A SONG IN THE DARK and am now anxious to go back and finish it. Haven't gotten to that amateurish ROMEO AND JULET by Gilbert and Shearer in two strip Technicolor, but I know it's coming.