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No, No, Nanette
A bible publisher is falling in love with a chorus girl and finds himself backing a Broadway show.
| Release : | 1930 |
| Rating : | 6.1 |
| Studio : | First National Pictures, |
| Crew : | Director of Photography, Director, |
| Cast : | Bernice Claire Alexander Gray Lucien Littlefield Louise Fazenda Lilyan Tashman |
| Genre : | Comedy Music |
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Captivating movie !
There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
It's impossible to review this film as it no longer exists. It was one of five co-starring Bereneice Claire and Alexander Gray (the MacDonald and Eddy of early musicals). The Vitaphone disc which encompasses the sound to the trailer does exist and rather than show portions of the film, the performers are simply introduced to the audience and the film described.Gray and Claire's other lost film, THE SONG OF THE FLAME, does exist as six of the Vitaphone sound reels and was Oscar nominated for Sound - deservedly from the quality of the discs which I have heard.Gray only made 10 films and Claire only 13. It's sad that two of them are lost.
I think the print I saw was made by the original two-color Technicolor process. The film is about putting on a Broadway show. I enjoyed the music but didn't entirely understand the plot. There was one bit of dialogue used repeatedly wherein Nanette, who is a bit of a harebrain, makes silly suggestions and is admonished by a stuffy older man who says condescendingly "No, no, Nanette". I thought the funniest part was when this sort of visionary (I thought he was an architect but realize now he must have been the scenic designer or maybe the playwright) explains his revolutionary way of staging the show. Something like this: the show will be performed in the orchestra and a swimming pool will be in the balcony. His listener asks "then where is the audience?" The reply: "On the stage!" The rest of my life I have occasionally thought of and sung to myself the song from the movie: "When skies are gray, I like to say/I want to be happy so I can make you happy too..." I have always wanted to hear it performed but I never have.
