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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Legendary bad movie (Just ask Michael Medved who put it in one of his bad movie books) about a movie producer who's producing a string of flops. in en effort to get humanity back into his pictures he hires a small town girl to be his Miss Humanity and help him steer pictures in the right direction. Beautiful Technicolor turkey thats as wrong headed as the movie its suppose to be about. Full of ballet, opera and the finer things the film also boasts low grade humor from the Ritz Brothers, some middle of the road Gershwin songs and Charlie McCarthy. Its a movie or the upper brow, or what the low class would think is high class. Unfunny with a sense of humor that is off four ways to Sunday this movie elicits the gag reflex not the laugh reflex. Whats worse is that any humor that works gets lost via the "artistic" bits of opera and ballet. I won't even get into the romance which is just plain fake. A road accident of a film rightly consigned to one of the all time bad lists.

Mostly dreadful and overlong this "Follies" attempt patches together a lame plot with a variety of acts.Adolphe Menjou is fine as the movie producer who hires Andrea Leeds to give him the "human touch" in his films. He falls for her but she's in love with a hamburger slinger (Kenny Baker) she tricks Menjou into hiring for his new film. Throw into this stew Vera Zorina as a temperamental ballet star and you have the framework for this film.Edgar Bergen (and dummy) provide some humor, especially in a funny bit with radio star Phil Baker. Helen Jepson sings a few numbers (she's no Jeanette MacDonald), Bobby Clark plays the harried casting director, Ella Logan (trying to be Martha Raye) is the chaperone, Nydia Westman is the friend, Frank Shields (tennis pro and grandfather to Brooke) is the assistant director to Jerome Cowan. The Ritz Brothers (dreadful as usual) have one funny bit and stink in the rest of their appearance. Alan Ladd has a bit as an auditioning singer.

A sweet romance, good character actors, vivid Technicolor, a little behind-the-scenes work at a major studio, and great songs make this a pleasant way to spend two hours. It's also interesting historically because it marks the transition between the end (for only a few decades, thankfully) of tap and the beginning of ballet in film musicals.

I agree that the film is in many ways a mess, but what grand songs! Some of the last songs George Gershwin composed (a few actually finished by Vernon Duke). Especially lovely is Kenny Baker slinging hamburgers in a diner, singing "Love Walked In," and later "Love Is Here To Stay." It is also a very early example of a Technicolor film. So although often quite dumb, this film has its moments of fine entertainment.