Top Of The Town 1937 Full Movie
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Trigger warning: In Top of the Town 1937, blackface is featured. I condemn racism. I believe regardless of modern values, this film should be accessible to all. If not for entertainment purposes, then for education purposes. It starts around 1:09:33 and goes toward the end. It is not an important part of the film, so you may skip if you'd like to 1:18:50
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Initial release: March 26, 1937
Directors: Ralph Murphy, Walter Lang, Sam White
Cinematography: Hal Mohr
Set decoration: Jack Martin Smith
Screenplay: Robert Benchley, Lou Brock
Starring: Doris Nolan, George Murphy, Ella Logan, Hugh Herbert, Gerald Oliver Smith, Mischa Auer, Gregory Ratoff and little Peggy Ryan!
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Oh how I wish there were clubs like this now...dress up, have dinner, be entertained...dance the old fashioned way...that was living!
I agree! I love to dance, but people smashed together on dance floors, no class, no dancing knowledge, I just could not get into it :-(. My dad taught me to dance cha cha, Fox trot, waltz, when I was little. I find Europeans seem to have more of a dance culture, as well as areas of South America. Couples gather in the weekends in parks and there is a band, no nice, especially for older couples who dress up.
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That would be so lovely! To have elegance back again
GREAT movie filled with fantastic music, dancing, love and laughs! Oh, what today's youth are missing out on. 🥰
Thanks for the upload! feels like magic to watch these old films.
WOW what a fabulous film, a mix of established stars and little know but extremally talented ones, little Peggy Ryan(the pint sized Elleanor Powell), Gertruder Nieson, The Three Sailors and my favorite Ella Logan, JUST GREAT!
George Murphy, a greatly under-rated dancer and entertainer
Thanks for posting! I've been looking for a 16 of this for years.
Glad I could help!
GOOD OLD MOVES, UPLIFTING. THANK YOU.
Thanks so much for uploading this!! So great to see little Peggy. Everyone sings really well in this imo. :))))
Right?! So adorable!!
@@makeemlaugh7627 : Awful video quality. Not laughing.
Wake up Dear, it's the big number. Very funny. Too bad about the offensive painted faces chorus.
LOVED this film!!!! Our mother graduated High School in 1937 and feel close to her spirit in that she may have seen this at a local theater in her days gone by. She's gone now, but this film is so cute.......I'll bet she would've enjoyed it as much as I do!!! ;o)
I always enjoy old movies
I have the exact same feeling as you. I’m watching all these old movies feeling my parents are with me!
As a mother of a grown son, I loved your memory of your mom.
@@mimiluvfromsf.....Awwwww, you're so sweet to share that!! Thanks!!💕💕💕
Badly needs a video and soundtrack restoration. i love the studio logo, graphics, and set design: art deco galore!
A play on the attitude of altitude, packed full of individuals with, each, their own amazing charcter skills.
If you can hang on until the grand finale, you'll be well rewarded for your patience.
Tinfoil hat trivia: Songs from this film are used in OUR GANG FOLLIES OF 1938, and while Ella Logan is in TOP OF THE TOWN, her niece(?)Annie Ross is in OUR GANG FOLLIES!
Never have seen this movie (will tonight), but saw Annie Ross live in the oughts in New York after growing up with that our gang episode… that foolish feeling is one of my favorite songs - I’m trying to learn how to play it on guitar…
Peggy is just too adorable and talented!!😭👏🏻💓💓💓💓
Isn't she though💓
This is an amazing and somewhat bizarre film. It is also a wonderful film and I am so delighted to have it presented by 'Make Em Laugh'.
First, the Art Deco Sets are really excellent. The large round elevator is spectacular, made more so by its operator sitting the middle of it.
The two female lead singers, both very different are, I thought, extremely good. The more energetic one, is greatly influence by Judy Garland, but still her own singer. Her energy is terrific.The more mature singer is quite moving in especially one song. Her look is unique. Her eyes are very high on her face, and too small, as is her mouth, everything seems wrong proportionally...so how come she is so completely beautiful? The three sailors who are not very funny nevertheless do some highly interesting things with their bodies in space. George Murphy, when we finally get to see him dance, is just terrific. He is unjustly underrated in the filmography of the dance cannon. The cast of thousands is astounding, and the films director has tried to put in as many ethnic groups as he can. In this group we have the heavenly choir in Black Face. It is an unfortunate Black Face and not the regular Black Face of the time. The makeup is quite hideous, I could barely look at it. Some viewers will find this extremely offensive, including myself. Yet the costumer has given them all halos, surely a sign of respect. I will have to look more closely but it think the choirs cast is Black, wearing Black Face, and so this may not be as bad as it now seems. There is much wrong with this film, and much is wonderful. As a time capsule, it is of perfection. As such should be carefully watched. I would go so far as to say cherished. Judge it from the time it was filmed point of view versus our current one, in this aspect it is phenomenal. As there is a possibility it will be withdrawn watch it as soon as you can. It would be a real loss not to see it, even as uneven as it is. I for one, will not forget this film.
I think the performers in blackface are really Black!
strange how twisted modern thinking has become.....innocents has truly been lost
First, the negatives. Most of the blame goes to director Ralph Murphy, who doesn't seem to have a grasp of what makes up a good musical. But blame also goes to Doris Nolan, who has zero chemistry with everyone on the set; another leading lady could have brightened things up. Jimmy McHugh's songs are forgettable, which is amazing for one of Hollywood's top composers and producer of standards (but never won an Oscar!). Finally, The Three Sailors - 'nuff said about them.
Now, the positives. Huge praise for set designer Jack Martin Smith, who also sketched the designs for the Emerald City and went on to design the sets for CLEOPATRA. I want those elevators! Lots of great support, although Hugh Herbert's schtick gets a little old after awhile, and Ratzoff and Auer are underutilized. We get to see George Murphy dance (finally!), even paired up with the underrated Peggy Ryan (who later teamed up and married the also underrated dancer Ray McDonald). Ella Logan ten years later would be a smash in the original Broadway production of FINIAN'S RAINBOW, introducing "How Are Things In Glocca Mora?" and "That Ol' Devil Moon." Gertrude Niesen, whose role seems to have been cut down, was the first to record "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes."
This film marked the debut of the "A Universal Picture" pexiglass logo...
Universal went whole-hog promoting this in LIFE magazine. You'd think it was the most important film of 1937!
For them, it probably was!
How are you doing iam new subscriber Arabic lady citizen actually we grownup watching Egyptian movies or indian movies with Arabic subtitles we rarely watched American films but since 2019 when I began to subscribe to British American RUclips channels I learned so many things iam still learning I gathered main information about movie top of town here it’s it’s useful information for all subscribers plot of film after trip to Russia Diana Borden Doris Nolan returns to New York City where her uncle have opened moonbeam room nightclub at top of skyscrapers soon after she hired as chorus girl by band leader Ted Lene George Murphy who is looking to land to gig in new club
thank you for this beautiful movi you make me and my family laugh in the Corona times
Aw thanks💓💓
We've got plenty-o heavy duty DECO in this one!
A funny movie from 1941 is Buy Me That Town with Lloyd Nolan, Sheldon Leonard plus Edward Brophy. I would love to see this movie posted. This movie is free from copyright issues. I hope you can find the movie, it is fabulous😂
"Where Are You" is the one song standard(recorded by Frank Sinatra in the 50s)that came out of this. Ella Logan had nice legs.
Ralph {Francis} Murphy later directed various episodes of "MR. AND MRS. NORTH" in the early 1950's.
I wish I was back in 1937 times where much simpler plus I like the fashion
The fashion was 👌👌👌👌
The new Plexiglass Globe logo is used at the beginning and the end.
Feel like i've just watched a drug induced musical nightmare and don't get me started on Doris Nolan's shoulders !!
Came here from Zadie Smith swing time
The Three Sailors look like the poor Man's Ritz Brothers!
What a great movie!
Never saw a circus quite like this! Enjoyable film. Thanks.
You mean these songs did NOT originate with Our Gang?
This was Universal's much-hyped but somewhat bungled attempt to get into the musicals game with MGM, RKO, Fox and Warner. (Paramount had already slipped from its early-Thirties heights.) The Art Deco sets are impressive, the scenes well populated with extras and there are some elaborate crane and tracking shots. But the director, Ralph Murphy, was a hack; Jimmy McHugh's tunes were unmemorable, leading man George Murphy is only permitted a bit of hoofing at the end, and there is too much slapstick, with Hugh Herbert overdoing the woo-hoos.
The film is full of might-have-beens and forlorn hopes.
Lou Brock, who wrote the story and produced, had dreamed up Astaire and Rogers as a team for 'Flying Down to Rio'. But his career soon declined to comedy shorts, and he wound up as a hotel night-desk clerk.
Doris Nolan, the titular star, oscillated between Hollywood and Broadway before marrying Alexander Knox, who was blacklisted. They moved to Britain. She was perhaps too tall, stiff and beaky; as a social-justice socialite, she sashays through the early scenes like Gladys George, though she was only 21.
Ella Logan, a pint-sized Scot, shoulders most of the song and dance burden. She went over better on Broadway- her triumphs included introducing 'How Are Things in Gloccamorra' in the original production of 'Brigadoon.'
The Three Sailors, like the Ritz Brothers reconfigured as a human centipede, did not feature in any other film.
Dance director Gene Snyder was a bright young fellow from Broadway who went back there. No other movie credits.
Tweenager Peggy Ryan was promoted by Murphy; this was her first feature. She does a neat tap routine, finishing with a homage to Eleanor Powell, but it may have doomed her to being marooned in Universal programmers (cf Ann Miller at Columbia) playing gooseberry to Gloria Jean and Donald O'Connor.
The saddest story is Verna Leslie, unbilled as a specialty dancer whose contribution I could not find on a first viewing. Miss Leslie had performed for Ziegfeld with Powell; both got the call from Hollywood and Verna was signed by Fox, who gave her no work. She had to toil in a drug store for $25 a week while Powell started on $1,250 at Metro.
Lou Brock remembered Verna and signed her to 'Top of the Town', announcing that she would become Powell's competitor. It was her only credit, and sources have no record of her life afterwards.
I should add that Gene Snyder was credited as joint choreographer for Eleanor Powell's last Broadway show, 'At Home Abroad'; although I suspect that between her and Vincente Minnelli, whose Broadway stage debut as director it was, Snyder did not get much of his own way.
Thanks for the info! You're nautical, but nice.
The Three Sailors were also in the British film RADIO PARADE OF 1935.
@@antoniod So they were, and IMDB has missed it. I should have remembered, bc 'Radio Parade' is a splendid piece of work. The lads play Clifford Mollison's underlings in a broadcast network's overworked Complaints Department.
The Sailors- Harry Blue, Bert Jason and Bob Robson- were a steady attraction from 1923 to 1947, only dissolving when Blue (who married a British showgirl) hurt his back. They broke through via a booking at the London Palladium in 1928 and were based in Blighty until WW2. They may have come across as a Stooges ripoff, but they too suffered from imitators- e.g. an act called the Three Stowaways.
Where are you is a lovely number later taken up by a whole host of singers
Epic!
Were are you ?
why should I?
To be continue two begin to fell in love but when Ted reveals he only hired her to help his own career Diana quits when Ted is finally hired cub now begin run by Diana their artistic vision clash genere comedy musical production in year 1937 director Ralph Murphy written by Robert Benchley Lou Brock writing for night and day in1937 graham greene gave film poor review describing as one of those distressingly carefree musical who only ungay faces are among audience thank you for your documentary cultural channel classical movies ihope for your channel more success and progress stay safe blessed good luck to you your dearest ones
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Fascinating to see this God-awful movie. Christ knows what it's about plus the music is terrible. Does anyone know if Ella Logan's first feature "Flying Hostess" is on DVD? I'm also looking for "Woman Chases Man" and "52nd Street" (both 1937) which also featured Ella Logan.
Sorry but I enjoyed it quite a bit. I'm sure you are much more talented than any of these actors and dancers!
I believe what you mean to say is "THANK YOU for taking the time to post this FREE entertainment.
Where are you is a superb number taken up by a whole range of singers including Sinatra.
The sound is not good.
Joan of Arc never quit. Yeah, but the whale ate him anyway. I'm gonna lay me doon and di.
Getrude Nissan had an odd singing voice didn’t she?
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