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The Show-Off

  • 1934
  • Passed
  • 1h 17min
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Spencer Tracy and Madge Evans in The Show-Off (1934)
ComedyRomance

Agrega una trama en tu idiomaAubrey cons Amy into thinking he's a railroad bigwig. After they marry Aubrey overspends in setting up their home. When their financial situation gets dire they go back to her parents house ... Leer todoAubrey cons Amy into thinking he's a railroad bigwig. After they marry Aubrey overspends in setting up their home. When their financial situation gets dire they go back to her parents house until Aubrey changes his ways and they can get on stable footing. When he loses his job he... Leer todoAubrey cons Amy into thinking he's a railroad bigwig. After they marry Aubrey overspends in setting up their home. When their financial situation gets dire they go back to her parents house until Aubrey changes his ways and they can get on stable footing. When he loses his job he takes one wearing a sandwich board. After he helps Joe sell his patent for a good price a... Leer todo

  • Dirección
    • Charles Reisner
  • Guionistas
    • George Kelly
    • Herman J. Mankiewicz
  • Elenco
    • Spencer Tracy
    • Madge Evans
    • Henry Wadsworth
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
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    • Dirección
      • Charles Reisner
    • Guionistas
      • George Kelly
      • Herman J. Mankiewicz
    • Elenco
      • Spencer Tracy
      • Madge Evans
      • Henry Wadsworth
    • 12Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 2Opiniones de los críticos
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    Spencer Tracy
    Spencer Tracy
    • J. Aubrey Piper
    Madge Evans
    Madge Evans
    • Amy Fisher Piper
    Henry Wadsworth
    Henry Wadsworth
    • Joe Fisher
    Lois Wilson
    Lois Wilson
    • Clara Harling
    Grant Mitchell
    Grant Mitchell
    • Mr. 'Pa' Fisher
    Clara Blandick
    Clara Blandick
    • Mrs. 'Ma' Fisher
    Alan Edwards
    Alan Edwards
    • Frank Harling
    Claude Gillingwater
    Claude Gillingwater
    • J.B. Preston
    Ernie Alexander
    • Jimmy
    • (sin créditos)
    William Burress
    William Burress
    • Andrew Barnabas
    • (sin créditos)
    Dora Clement
    Dora Clement
    • Mrs. John Preston
    • (sin créditos)
    Heinie Conklin
    Heinie Conklin
    • Excursion Boat Passenger
    • (sin créditos)
    Nick Copeland
    • Elevator Operator
    • (sin créditos)
    Sherry Hall
    • Ship #1 Officer
    • (sin créditos)
    Eddie Hart
    Eddie Hart
    • Perry
    • (sin créditos)
    Edward Hearn
    Edward Hearn
    • Automobile Attendant
    • (sin créditos)
    Tom Herbert
    • 2nd Drunk
    • (sin créditos)
    Charles Lane
    Charles Lane
    • Mr. Weitzenkorn
    • (sin créditos)
    • Dirección
      • Charles Reisner
    • Guionistas
      • George Kelly
      • Herman J. Mankiewicz
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    7AlsExGal

    Shows Spencer Tracy's range as an actor

    This is the kind of role Spencer Tracy played before he became a symbol for honesty and respectability in the movies. He does a great job, but it's strange to see him be the object of a morality tale - albeit a comic one - about how not to succeed in life.

    J. Aubrey Piper (Spencer Tracy) is an office clerk working for a railroad and out on an excursion boat when a man falls overboard. Piper jumps in and saves the man, winning the attention and interest of Amy Fisher (Madge Evans), the daughter in a respectable middle-class family. Aubrey is a bag of wind like the biggest hurricane you've ever seen, but Amy oddly seems blinded to all of this blustering. She doesn't seem to notice that although Aubrey always takes her out in the most fashionable of cars that it's always a different one every time - a "demonstration model". This was a custom years ago of letting people with no credit history drive new expensive cars around to see if they liked them enough to buy them. The problem is, the rest of Amy's family knows exactly what Aubrey is and they cringe every time he comes around, always with a big appetite and a tale overblowing his own importance.

    Amy and Aubrey get married, and soon the problems begin. Amy's problem is not suddenly discovering that her husband is a liar, because he really isn't. He doesn't lie about his occupation or income, he just blows out of proportion his own importance in every event that occurs. Thus the death of their marriage is slow suffocation from a thousand disappointments - things bought on credit when Amy thought they were paid for, bills unpaid, wage attachments - all because Aubrey really believes his ship is about to come in although he has no plan as to how and why.

    This one ends in a way that you wouldn't expect for an MGM movie in the 1930's that seems to be teaching a tale about the need for humility and realism, and maybe that was because in 1934 the last things Americans needed in the Great Depression was humility and realism in what is supposed to be a comedy.

    I'd recommend this one as an opportunity to see Spencer Tracy early in his career in a very likable little film. In the hands of a lesser actor you'd probably just want to strangle Piper, but Tracy gives even this shallow fellow enough depth that you'll likely feel at least a little sympathy for him at points. I know I did.
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    Early offbeat role shows manic side of Spence.

    Today Spencer Tracy is looked upon as a sage contemplative man of wisdom in regards to his film persona as husband, father and priest over the decades. In the Show -Off Tracy becomes one of the many characters that would try his calm patience in the years to come.

    J. Aubrey Piper is a lowly railroad office employee who freely gives vent to all who will listen or are in ear shot to his delusions of grandeur. After inadvertently becoming a hero by falling off a boat to save a drowning man he hooks up with Amy Fisher (Madge Evans) who believes in him even if her family (and you can't blame them) doesn't. J. Aubrey continues to make a mess of things though and loses his job and Amy leaves him while J A is now reduced to wearing a sandwich board advertising turkey dinners.

    Tracy's Piper possesses a huge ego that fails to see the error of his ways in the most glaring of circumstances. He's so abrasive, annoying and audacious at times that you just want someone to slap some sense into him. Spence goes a little over the top at times but it's when chastened and free of mania that we see the performer that would go on to be as respected as any film actor of his era bring the audience to his side. The prolific Clara Blandick (she'd appear in 10 films in 1934) as the disapproving mother provides a perfect foil for Piper with cutting one liners and withering facial expressions.

    Overall The Show-Off is a mild comedy with a thin story line but it does offer an energetic performance from Spencer Tracy seldom seen in a man with the cinema gravitas of Mount Rushmore.
    Sleepy-17

    Comedy about hyperbolic lying features Spencer Tracy

    This is an amiable version of an interesting play about a genial but dangerous bullslinger played by Tracy. He is just barely successful with personal relationships (his in-laws can't stand him) and gets fired from his job, but in the end triumphs! A good lesson about the way the corporation works, and why the rewards for a good salesman are so great.
    6marcslope

    Attaboy, Spence

    Studio hacks didn't come any hackier than Charles Reisner, and his inept editing, mise-en-scene (how many useless reaction shots can one programmer contain?), and pacing almost sink this adaptation of a hit stage comedy-drama by George Kelly, uncle of Grace. A prosaic screenplay, surprisingly by Herman Mankiewicz, doesn't help. And the title character, a tediously lying blowhard, wouldn't be interesting to watch if Spencer Tracy, at the beginning of a long and profitable association with MGM, weren't playing him. Tracy brings some variety and emotional ballast to this one-note braggart, whom you might expect to be played by that other MGM Tracy of the day, Lee. Spence even makes him--almost--sympathetic by the rather rushed fadeout. Madge Evans, near the end of her too-brief career, is a lovely and womanly leading lady--you buy the devotion between her and Tracy, though nothing about him seems to warrant it--and Clara Blandick gets lots of footage entertainingly grumping about. And it's hardly the finest moment for the great cinematographer James Wong Howe, but he does come up with a couple of arresting compositions, as well as some expert fakery of New York locations in the first reel.
    5bkoganbing

    A Lovable Blowhard Braggart

    Spencer Tracy was busy working at Fox Studio at this time, turning out a succession of B film programmers that gave very little indication of the star he would eventually become. Fox loaned him out occasionally and they did here to MGM where he would really hit the big time.

    Watching The Show-Off today I thought of two early television characters that Tracy reminded me of. A little bit of Phil Silvers as Sergeant Bilko and a whole lot of Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden.

    The film is of course based on George Kelly's play of the same name and in doing a little research on Kelly I found there was a live production on television in the Fifties that starred none other than Jackie Gleason. Red Skelton did a remake of this as a feature film, but I hope that Gleason's performance is not lost and a kinescope of the performance exists and is preserved.

    Tracy's a lovable mug with a gift for gab who like Ralph Kramden had every big scheme blow up in his face. And he's got his Alice here in the person of Madge Evans who Audrey Meadows could have played in a remake. Tracy's not a womanizer here, he really does love Madge and she him. But Madge is about at her wit's end with him.

    During the course of things they have to move back with her mother. You remember Ralph's mother-in-law? Clara Blandick almost steals the film as Madge's mom who cannot stand her son-in-law. Like Bilko and Ralph he's always "on" all the time. I know I couldn't stand living with someone like that.

    Tracy gives it a good try and the cast does well. But maybe the film needed a Norton character.

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    • Trivia
      The part of J. Aubrey Piper was originally to be played by Lee Tracy, but his contract was terminated by MGM when, during the production in Mexico of Viva Villa! (1934), he got drunk, urinated off a balcony onto a passing patrol of Mexican soldiers (who almost shot him) and was deported from Mexico. Spencer Tracy got the part with the help of Frank Morgan, and afterwards signed a long-term contract with MGM.
    • Errores
      The contract that Aubrey signs, with such extraordinary consequences, would not be binding because he had been given no authority by the company to make it.
    • Conexiones
      References Poor Aubrey (1930)
    • Bandas sonoras
      Happy Days Are Here Again
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      Written by Milton Ager and Jack Yellen

      Whistled by Spencer Tracy

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 9 de marzo de 1934 (Estados Unidos)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
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    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, Estados Unidos(Studio)
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      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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