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Post #1414390

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Vultural
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A few reviews . . (film or TV)
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3-Mar-2021, 12:22 PM

Made On Broadway - 1933 - 5/10

Messy PreCode vehicle straddles blasé sophistication and screwball.
Jeff Bidwell is a publicity agent / fixer, and his fees ain’t cheap.
There is an endless stream of clients who flutter to his nightclub / office after they land in another swamp.
He takes an impoverished suicidal type under his wing (why?), determined to remake her.

Story tries to be too many things – daintily – and is neither risqué nor comic.
Warners could have done something lurid or sordid with this, MGM is stodgy.
Babyface came out the same year. See that instead.