I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Thanks for the memories!

Pretty Good

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

This was sort of a 1930s version of one of those wild party movies that include girls, dancing, wild hyjinks, and funny comical set pieces. Even though not exactly the same, numerous more recent versions of the same idea are well known.The film starts out as Jimmy Durante who is a unsteady film star playing "Shnarzan" and sequels (obvious ripoff Tarzan and sequels) who's popularity is slipping and being taken over by rival Liondora (George Givot). Durante then decides to throw the party of all parties to boost his ratings. Givot himself shows up masquerading as the Grand royal duke of...something something, I can't remember. Anyway, he introduces himself to people getting his hand kissed, including by a man, Charles Butterworth. But those kinda jokes in those days were played as more wacky and ridiculous rather than gay. Charles' wife Polly Moran (who plays "I've had my moments" on piano very well later on in film) is there and pretty daughter June Clyde. June meets Eddie Quillin in elevator (right after humorous moment of Polly trying to get Charles to remove his hat). June and Eddie have a romantic dance and singing together to instrumental version of "I've had my moments". Many more guys, pretty girls come in and dance, sing, display comical and/or raunchy comments and/or visuals throughout two more songs, " Hollywood party" and "Feeling high". Many young people having a wild, fun time. Even though some things have changed a whole lot since the 1930s, there were always people who loved to just drink and have a good time. Even so, many people were still more mannerly and with values than people today are. Further funny hygincs in this film include real lions being wheeled in in cages outside the house (which leads to a crazy hilarious scene later in film), the stooges showing up, a curious cameo from Micky mouse (including Micky hilariously impersonating Durante), a rare off- beat yet amusing cartoon (Hot chocolate soldiers), and then a funny slapstick sequence with Laurel and Hardy and beauty Lupe Velez involving eggs. Also shown is a funny yet off beat Durante visual with a horse.Spioler alert for this last paragraph: here's where I subtracted a couple of points. I'm with a lot of people who don't like films that turn out to have an " it was all a dream" deal show up.

Like the cover states, it has everything! It has Jimmy Durante fighting lions, Laurel and Hardy, musical numbers, laughs, Mickey Mouse, and even the Three Stooges (with Ted Healy) appear as reporters. We also get a color Disney animated short, a funny scene featuring Laurel and Hardy, Lupe Velez, broken eggs, and a revealing dress, not to mention the naked shadow of a woman's breast. This movie is so typical of the 30s upper class lifestyle, it almost felt like I was transported to that time period. This is one of those movies that I mainly like just for the look of it. Sure it has almost no plot whatsoever, but you could say that about almost any "party" film. Overall, it's just a really fun movie. And for a little bonus- check out the outfits on some of the ladies. Yowza!

(Some Spoilers) Jimmy Durane who's become world famous as the wild and untamed jungle man Schnarzan is starting to lose his popularity with the movie going public. In that the man eating lions he uses in his Schnarzan movies aren't at all believable as man eaters. In an effort to get back on top of the charts Durante is determined to get famed big game hunter Baron Munchausen's real ferocious man eating lions to be in his latest movie to make his role as Schnarzan the fearless come across as the real deal. The one problem Durante has is that his biggest rival in the movies fellow jungle man Liondora is also interested in getting the Baron's lions for is movies as well! It's now a battle of the two jungle men to get the Baron's lions and Durante jumps the gun by throwing a big Hollywood Party in the Barons honor. But the cagey Liondora has other ideas. He's planning to crash the party disguised , with only a mustache, as a Grand Royal Duke and steal the Baron's lions from right under, no pun intended, Jimmy Durante's nose.Wild and crazy fun at the party to end all parties which in fact in being one of the last Hollywood movies released before the Hayes Commission came into power in laying down the law of what to and not to, in regards to sex and moral related scenes, put into movies it got away with things that the American movie going public wouldn't be expose to in almost 30 years. Like the skimpy outfit that Lupe Velez the jungle woman and Schnarzan mate wore as well a the hot and heavy as well as hilarious love scenes between the Royal Duke aka Liondora with Henrietta Clemp the wife of multi-millionaire oil man Harvey Clemp. There's also a color cartoon called "The Cohc-late Soldiers" introduced by Mickey Mouse who like Liondora crashed the party and, with the female guests running for their lives, almost started a riot.***SPOILERS*** It's Stan & Oilie, Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, who really brought the roof down at Jimmy's Hollywood party in exposing the Baron as a deadbeat in stiffing them with check for 50,000 tidily winks, not US currency, that he bought the lion off them that bounced. In the end Jimmy Durante aka Scharzan got his wish as well as the man eating lions who, with the help of Stan & Oille, broke out of their cages and caused holy havoc all over the place. Durante while trying to impress Mrs.Clemp with his both Schnarzan jungle cry as well as his lion fighting abilities unwittingly ends up being attacked and dragged down a flight of stairs by one of the escaped Baron's man eating lions. It's then that Jimmy finally comes to his senses with the big surprise ending that he as well as the audience gets in the movies finial shocking and gut crunching minutes!

This is really a scrapbook of bits linked together by the word "party."If you have ever wondered why The Three Stooges are so called, it is because they began life in vaudeville as the butt of Ted Healy's gags. In this film we see a rare instance of Healy and his stooges in action.Classic is the piece where Lupe Velez teams up with Laurel and Hardy. A battle begins, which has since been quoted in a number of compilation films.Perhaps the piece which steals the show is the colour cartoon by Disney. I have never ever seen it shown on Disney programmes, even though it is one of his best sequences.It's worth watching just for these three features.