sovay: (Sydney Carton)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote 2016-11-25 11:36 pm (UTC)

Re: Off-topic

It was a Poverty row production and evidently there's currently no owner who can be bothered to yank it off YouTube.

Oh, hey, speaking of Poverty Row productions, you may wish to check out Something to Sing About (1937) if you have never seen it. I watched it with [livejournal.com profile] derspatchel last month; it's a fun, slightly ramshackle Hollywood send-up starring James Cagney and Evelyn Daw with really three things to recommend it, namely (a) Cagney's dancing, including an otherwise out-of-nowhere number with Johnny Boyle and Harland Dixon, two of his vaudeville mentors; it is the only time all three appeared on film together (b) the romance plot, which didn't work out at all the way I was expecting and which I was rather pleased by (c) the subplot with Philip Ahn. In fact, if you watch this movie for Philip Ahn alone, you will be doing fine. But Cagney's dancing is also pretty great. It appears to be on YouTube, although I'd make sure nobody's done anything wonky to the running speed.

Not that I wouldn't love to read your write-ups of various things, but I'm happy spamming you with links without expectations.

I appreciate it. I would like to be writing more!

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