Haha, I grew up in New Rochelle where the new bride was from. There was a 4 story Tenement Apartment building on Huguenot St @ Center Ave right by the Railroad tracks that was low rent and had a lot of young couples starting out that lived there back in the old days of the 1930's when it was built. We all called it the Honeymoon Hotel.
I remember watching this entire movie when I was 10 years old, and I loved every minute of it. Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler were Hollywood sweethearts to America .... box office hits.
Kia Julian : Oh, come now. This is rather charming soft-core compared with some pre-Code depravity. And after all, they're all married at the Honeymoon Hotel!
1:37 --- "The two old dragons in the el-a-va-tor . . . look as if they both belong in Hell . . . how did these old biddies ever end up . . . in the Ho-ney-moon Ho-tel?"
The newspaper ad in the very first shot says The Honeymoon Hotel has "400 Rooms / 400 Baths" - yet at the end of this clip, all the married men come trooping out of the shared mens' bathroom. If every room had a bath, this wouldn't be a bathroom like that.
Jersey City, on the West Bank of the Hudson River, looks a lot like a miniature New York City with a tiny Manhattan rife with skyscrapers (9 of the 10 tallest buildings in New Jersey are in Jersey City), including a Trump Tower, and a huge Skyscraper owned by Jared Kushner. Jersey City has a relatively large amount of Brownstones similar to Brooklyn neighborhoods, a dilapidated neighborhood similar to the Bronx that used to be rife with burned-out buildings that have mostly been rehabilitated with a busy Firehouse called Fort Apache. There is also a district housing the poor and lower-middle-class called Greenville with an atmospheric look and feel of Queens all wrapped up in miniature. It also has the densest population for cities with at least 250k people and is probably the most diverse melting pot per capita in the country. Of course, there are more places not to park, than available parking spaces giving way to an abundance of expensive parking lots, Then there are numerous connections to Manhattan starting with the Holland Tunnell, and another tunnel restricted to commercial trains, along with several PATH subway stops going under the Hudson River and Journal Square areas connecting Jersey City to New York and Newark. There is also a Light Rail commuter passenger trains and the commuter boats sailing between Jersey City, Manhattan, and Brooklyn. Jersey City's nickname is actually the Sixth Borough going back to the 1800s as per Wikipedia.
When she separated from Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler had a brief affair with Dick Powell (which they did their best to keep secret). As Powell was married at the time (to Joan Blondell), they knew they could not be together openly or on a long-term basis. As noted, Keeler had a very happy second marriage to businessman John Lowe. Powell always spoke highly of her. Jolson had always been jealous of Powell and hated seeing Keeler in romantic scenes with him in movies.
@@robsieger1886 She and her second husband John Lowe had five children. At her visit to the Stanford Theatre in November 1991, she referred to him as "My John."
And Al Jolson was a performer who started performing at least two decades before Ruby Keeler starred in her first film. I'm pretty sure Al is much better known than Ruby by modern audiences, because Al Jolson starred in 1927's The Jazz Singer, the first feature-length movie to have speech in it, which was a movie that was basically about a Jew who wanted to become black. He was a minstrel performer, but i've heard he performed like that to show white people black culture or something.
Footlight Parade ( 1933 ) is a neat James Cagney film from which this small clip is from. Cagney plays a producer of Live Stage Prologue Productions which would play on stage at major movie houses before the Feature Film. It is a great film and worth watching if you can find it. I am not just saying that because I grew up in New Rochelle. Hehe.
Cagney had to fight for the role as he wanted to get away from the gangster stereotype. The Shanghai Lil number at the very end is the first time he danced on screen.
They cut out the funniest portion of the number and one of the most prolific dwarf actors of the time. Sad that Billy Barty can't be remembered. Y'all made the movie!! Stand behind it.
In the old days they had these rules called "moral laws". It was illegal to get a room w/another woman who was not yourself wife. A couple had to be married to get a room.. the house ( Dicks) Detective made sure no one broke these rules
Hmmm...you'll notice the joke that's referenced repeatedly in the opening, in the hotel's lobby - these "married couples" really weren't, which is why they were all using the fake name "Mr. and Mrs. Smith". So marriage "meaning something" is actually being mocked here.
This is utterly charming. Love it.
この時代の文化やファッションがたまらなく大好き。
I love this number - love the whole movie - it comes on Turner Classics quite often
Haha, I grew up in New Rochelle where the new bride was from.
There was a 4 story Tenement Apartment building on Huguenot St @ Center Ave
right by the Railroad tracks that was low rent and had a lot of young couples starting out
that lived there back in the old days of the 1930's when it was built.
We all called it the Honeymoon Hotel.
Well .. i’m sure that fab one in Yonkers wasn’t the only one… But… Great stuff, Bill! 😂
They do hilariously cute “Jersey City” there … 😂. But ….
THEY DONT MAKE GREAT MASTERPIECES LIKE THIS NOW. BUSBY BERKELEY WAS A GENIUS.
I remember watching this entire movie when I was 10 years old, and I loved every minute of it. Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler were Hollywood sweethearts to America .... box office hits.
I Get That Honeymoon Hotel Song Stuck In My Head From The Musical Footlight Parade
I Get That Honeymoon Hotel Song Stuck In My Head From The Musical Footlight Parade
WARNING! This is only a teaser, not the complete number. Just as it's getting started, the clip ends.
yep don't get to see the girls silhouettes and everything.
Th - th - That's all, Folks!
wonderful movies with Busby Berkeley terpsychorean choreografies...lovely American musicals we love in Spain..movies today are mostly for psycopats
"You're in Jersey City not in Hollywood at the Honey Moon Hotel."
Brilliant, witty and just wonderful!!
X rated -- even in 2018!! And some of the women were gorgeous!!
Kia Julian many of them were really gorgeous. It’s unfortunately become a habit for me to fall in love with women dead from at least 40 years 😢
@@VanHoeden Oh I TOTALLY do the same thing with male stars! 40 years ago?? Try 100 years ago!! 1920's! Lolol
If they died at least 40 years ago, it’s because they (female and male actors) were hot in the 1920/30s 😏
@@VanHoeden yeah...I guess...
Kia Julian : Oh, come now. This is rather charming soft-core compared with some pre-Code depravity. And after all, they're all married at the Honeymoon Hotel!
That was really good. And the women are beautiful.
Yes.
You have to remember "petting in the park" with Dick Powell using a can opener to get into a metal g string.
This needs a blu-ray release!
I assume it's available in digital HD since this is in HD.
it's on blu-ray now but i'm assuming you already know
@@RyswagPlays Yeah, I posted that a year ago. Fully aware ;)
1:37 --- "The two old dragons in the el-a-va-tor . . . look as if they both belong in Hell . . . how did these old biddies ever end up . . . in the Ho-ney-moon Ho-tel?"
Haha...well done .
haha i saw what you did there....
Because they were holidaying in the playground of Jersey City.
2:35 it's that Dave O'Brien guy from Reefer Madness!
Another cult classic!
if that film was made today, you might to find him in a Crack House rather than a Honeymoon Hotel
Great movie!!! Loved it so
The newspaper ad in the very first shot says The Honeymoon Hotel has "400 Rooms / 400 Baths" - yet at the end of this clip, all the married men come trooping out of the shared mens' bathroom. If every room had a bath, this wouldn't be a bathroom like that.
This movie needs a Blu-Ray
Your wish has been granted.
"I hear this I wouldn't dare to tell" oh dear, please tell us all of your deep dark secret XD lol
Jersey City doesn't look like that anymore.
Jersey City, on the West Bank of the Hudson River, looks a lot like a miniature New York City with a tiny Manhattan rife with skyscrapers (9 of the 10 tallest buildings in New Jersey are in Jersey City), including a Trump Tower, and a huge Skyscraper owned by Jared Kushner. Jersey City has a relatively large amount of Brownstones similar to Brooklyn neighborhoods, a dilapidated neighborhood similar to the Bronx that used to be rife with burned-out buildings that have mostly been rehabilitated with a busy Firehouse called Fort Apache. There is also a district housing the poor and lower-middle-class called Greenville with an atmospheric look and feel of Queens all wrapped up in miniature. It also has the densest population for cities with at least 250k people and is probably the most diverse melting pot per capita in the country. Of course, there are more places not to park, than available parking spaces giving way to an abundance of expensive parking lots, Then there are numerous connections to Manhattan starting with the Holland Tunnell, and another tunnel restricted to commercial trains, along with several PATH subway stops going under the Hudson River and Journal Square areas connecting Jersey City to New York and Newark. There is also a Light Rail commuter passenger trains and the commuter boats sailing between Jersey City, Manhattan, and Brooklyn. Jersey City's nickname is actually the Sixth Borough going back to the 1800s as per Wikipedia.
Warner did a cartoon version of this number for its animation division. The same (with minor adjustments) song only with animal characters. Cute.
Who is the operater girl...
Been wanting to know for years...
She's so cute...
whoever she is, she's dead.
@@eddyc9333 not the answer ... thanks for playing ...
Rosalie Roy?
@@Energiacosmica---o--- ok...of coarse , never heard of her... thank you... can't believe you even have a guess ... do you know her...?
@@D...M...A... No. I am from Europe but web search is almost a science.
The 20's-30's are one of my favorite obsesions.
Olden DAYSSSSSS
Well, after a few years with Jolson, poor Ruby was probably ready for an actual normal married life. Her second hubby was a doll, I hear.
Keeler and her second husband were married for many years happily and had four children.
When she separated from Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler had a brief affair with Dick Powell (which they did their best to keep secret). As Powell was married at the time (to Joan Blondell), they knew they could not be together openly or on a long-term basis. As noted, Keeler had a very happy second marriage to businessman John Lowe. Powell always spoke highly of her. Jolson had always been jealous of Powell and hated seeing Keeler in romantic scenes with him in movies.
@@robsieger1886 She and her second husband John Lowe had five children. At her visit to the Stanford Theatre in November 1991, she referred to him as "My John."
@@moldyoldie7888 they had four children together. She had an adopted son also from the Jolson marriage which makes five children of Ruby
@@lindaversil1121 Yep, you/re right.
irish Ruby Keeler was a great authentic irish dancer she make the error to marry Al
I thought she was Canadian.
@@MOGGS1942 A Canadian of Irish descent.
A Canadian of Irish descent whose family moved to NYC when she was very young. She's so loveable.
And Al Jolson was a performer who started performing at least two decades before Ruby Keeler starred in her first film. I'm pretty sure Al is much better known than Ruby by modern audiences, because Al Jolson starred in 1927's The Jazz Singer, the first feature-length movie to have speech in it, which was a movie that was basically about a Jew who wanted to become black. He was a minstrel performer, but i've heard he performed like that to show white people black culture or something.
Love it
Footlight Parade ( 1933 ) is a neat James Cagney film from which this small clip is from.
Cagney plays a producer of Live Stage Prologue Productions which would play on stage
at major movie houses before the Feature Film.
It is a great film and worth watching if you can find it. I am not just saying that because
I grew up in New Rochelle. Hehe.
Cagney had to fight for the role as he wanted to get away from the gangster stereotype. The Shanghai Lil number at the very end is the first time he danced on screen.
Cuz you're in Jersey City, and not in Hollywood!
I remember the episode of "Merrie melodies" cartoon with this name...
These idiotic "ads" in the end blocks nearly the whole picture! Remove them at once!
Downvote for the obnoxious ads overlaying the video
Why was the romantic part cut ?
Cause you're in Jersey City, and not in Hollywood
Is there a criterion collection of this?
They cut out the funniest portion of the number and one of the most prolific dwarf actors of the time. Sad that Billy Barty can't be remembered. Y'all made the movie!! Stand behind it.
0.23 Mildred Dixon (1910-1985)
Is Honeymoon Hotel a brothel？
the "click here to watch" and "click here to try" spoils this footage.
Click "settings" and click off "annotations" - you'll get rid of them.
Thanks so much. Only with companies do you get this BS
Great song from a great film, but BOY, talk about stereotypes. LOL
These were well worn by 1993.
@@neelyohara88 The bellboy, the house dicks, the maids, the Captain of the Comfort Station, good grief what characters here are NOT stereotypes?
Why the heck does a hotel have "house detectives?"
it is an old convention. some hotels even had Doctors.
In the old days they had these rules called "moral laws". It was illegal to get a room w/another woman who was not yourself wife. A couple had to be married to get a room.. the house ( Dicks) Detective made sure no one broke these rules
Also they were there to stop prostitution
@@michaelmaxim9754 or to allow it, and take a percentage.
Did I see Matthew Broderick?
No wonder the Coen Bros can't keep their paws off.
Not only the Coen's.
Singers were in short supply back then.
Hmm.
More like a brothel 😆
I dont get the justice of peace sign,,,,,
A JOP can perform weddings. The hotel "conveniently" has one working at the front desk, ready to assist any couple who want to marry.
everybody is probably dead...so sad
You know what's sadder? So will we in 100 years. 😂
@@craigsmith157 😆
There gonna bone
It's disgusting the way the detectives spit on the floor, aren't they aware that they're spreading disease EVERYWHERE?
The whole "soggy cigar perpetually in the mouth" thing is so disgusting.
Yep.. in those days only "correct Americans" would have leading roles....
Shut up and have some entertainment.
Ah, back when "marriage" actually meant something in western civilization.
Hmmm...you'll notice the joke that's referenced repeatedly in the opening, in the hotel's lobby - these "married couples" really weren't, which is why they were all using the fake name "Mr. and Mrs. Smith". So marriage "meaning something" is actually being mocked here.
Ahh pre code Hollywood....