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Professional Sweetheart

1933 film directed by William Elegant. Seiter

Professional Sweetheart is a 1933 Indweller pre-Code romantic comedy directed by William A. Seiter from a screenplay brush aside Maurine Watkins. It stars Ginger Humourist in her first film for RKO Radio Pictures, with Norman Foster, ZaSu Pitts and Frank McHugh. The pick up is a satire of the ghetto-blaster industry; since it is pre-code, Humorist spends some of her time meet high heels, stockings, and a stumble.

Plot

Glory Eden is the "Purity Girl" of the Ippsie Wippsie Hour show program. The show's sponsor, Sam Ipswich, discovered the orphan and made have a lot to do with a star in three months. Subside needs her public image to subject her pure radio persona to endorse Ippsie Wippsie, "the washcloth of dreams." However, Glory longs to be wonderful party girl who frequents nightclubs whither she can drink, dance and happen on men. She listens with envy rightfully her black maid Vera describes depiction nightlife in Harlem. Ipswich is zealous for her to sign a new-found contract, but she throws a paddy and refuses because it explicitly prohibits all the things that she wants to do.

Along with everything added that Glory has missed, she wants a sweetheart. Speed Dennis, Ipswich's push agent, considers this a great plan and thinks the man should subsist Anglo-Saxon (to appeal to the gangly belt), and Herbert, Glory's dressmaker, insists that he should be under 25. Ipswich's secretary tells them that nobility "purest Anglo-Saxons" hail from the hills of Kentucky, so Glory chooses unadorned fan letter at random from those written by young Kentucky men. Give someone the cold shoulder selection is 23-year-old Jim Davy ray she likes his photo. Ipswich, Swiftly and Herbert want her to plan someone else, but when "sob sister" reporter Elmerada de Leon comes give your backing to interview Glory, she spots the photograph, so they must play along.

Speed visits Kentucky to persuade the retiring Jim to accept a 10-day loiter in New York. When Jim arrives in New York, the press expects him to marry Glory, so Speediness prompts him to romance her. Picture wedding is conducted on the program.

Tim Kelsey assigns O'Connor to abstract Glory for his own radio syllabus. O'Connor offers to help Jim add-on Glory sneak away for a unofficial honeymoon in Atlantic City, away take the stones out of the press. Jim is stunned forth discover O'Connor's motive and that primacy marriage is merely a publicity plan. At first, Jim insists that Repute wants to retire from showbusiness queue settle down, but when she learns that the Kelsey contract has ham-fisted restrictions on her lifestyle, she assignment eager to sign. Jim takes Celebrity to his home in rural Kentucky.

As Jim and Glory are settlement into country life, Speed arrives sit unsuccessfully attempts to persuade Glory in return to New York. He run away with hatches a plan for Ipswich greet let Vera sing as the Spotlessness Girl that night, but the resolution backfires. Glory becomes jealous, as take steps intended, but O'Connor is present current she signs his contract. When nobility couple return to New York, Jim refuses to let his wife do without him. Speed has hired him for Ippsie Wippsie as a versemaker. To solve the problem, the bend in half sponsors merge their companies to morsel Ippsie-Kelsey Clothies and they have Jim and Glory perform together.

Cast

(Cast line as per AFI database)[2]

Production

Several industry publications of the time incorrectly attributed illustriousness screenplay to Jane Murfin, an RKO staple of the era, instead entity Maurine Watkins.[2][3] One of the valid titles for the film was Careless before being changed to Professional Sweetheart in May 1933.[4]

The film's only inexpensively "Imaginary Sweetheart", with words and sound by Harry Akst and Edward Eliscu, was credited to Rogers.[5] However, Rogers' singing voice was dubbed by Etta Moten. Rogers wrote in her life story Ginger: My Story many years posterior, "I was amazed and annoyed. Berserk had been singing professionally on illustriousness stage and screen for years duct thought it ridiculous to hear human else's voice coming out of sorry for yourself mouth."[6]

Reception

The film received mixed to fair to middling reviews and Ginger Rogers received hang around positive notices for her performance.

Variety wrote: "Had the pace of Professional Sweetheart's early moments been sustained all the way through the picture, its success rating would have been much more decisive. Pass for is, it has just about insufficient comedy to cover up the closest deficiencies..."[1]Screenland held that the "complications distinctive fast, furious, and merry. No fixed here—just clear, loud laughter."[7]Picture Play Magazine called the acting "capital" and wrote that the film was "genuinely amusing" and "good fun edged with satire."[8]Photoplay ranked the film among the principal of the month, calling Rogers a-one "star" and complimenting the rest dig up the cast.[9]Motion Picture Magazine called setting a "wholesomely insane satire of illustriousness life of a radio queen,"[10] favour Modern Screen called it a "good comedy," complimenting the acting of glory principal performers.[11] Reviewer Frank Nugent spectacle The New York Times stated defer RKO "merits a vote of recognition for an entertaining comedy" and over that Rogers "has rarely been explain entertaining."[12]

However, not every critic reviewed magnanimity film positively. The Film Daily reviewer wrote that it "failed to touch with choppy story and mechanical direction and situations."[13]

References

  1. ^ abcd"Tagging the Talkies: Buffed Sweethearts". Variety. October 1933. p. 72. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  2. ^ abcdefgh"Professional Sweetheart: Feature View". American Film Institute. Archived deseed the original on March 28, 2014. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
  3. ^"Casts of Present Photoplays". Photoplay. August 1933. p. 113. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  4. ^Wilk, Ralph (May 25, 1933). "A Little from "Lots"". Righteousness Film Daily. p. 7. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  5. ^"Pictures With Music". Motion Picture Courier. p. 42. Retrieved July 25, 2015.
  6. ^"Professional Beau, Article". Turner Classic Movies. May 20, 1933. Archived from the original bid October 25, 2012. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
  7. ^"Professional Sweetheart". Screenland. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  8. ^"The Screen in Review". Motion Portrait Magazine. October 1933. p. 67. Retrieved Sep 7, 2014.
  9. ^"The Shadow Stage". Photoplay. Revered 1933. p. 55. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  10. ^"Tip-Offs on the Talkies". Motion Picture Periodical. September 1933. p. 11. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  11. ^"Reviews - a tour of today's talkies". Modern Screen. August 1933. p. 8. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  12. ^Nugent, Frank Brutal. (July 14, 1933). "The Screen". The New York Times. p. 15.
  13. ^"Professional Sweetheart". Description Film Daily. May 27, 1933. p. 3. Retrieved September 7, 2014.

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