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Artists and Models

  • 1937
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  • 1h 37min
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Jack Benny and Ida Lupino in Artists and Models (1937)
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Agrega una trama en tu idiomaMac Brewster (Benny) is head of an advertising firm that is in debt. The million-dollar Townsend Silver contract could save the firm, but the wealthy playboy Alan Townsend (Arlen) wants an a... Leer todoMac Brewster (Benny) is head of an advertising firm that is in debt. The million-dollar Townsend Silver contract could save the firm, but the wealthy playboy Alan Townsend (Arlen) wants an amateur from high society rather than a professional model to become "the Townsend Girl." U... Leer todoMac Brewster (Benny) is head of an advertising firm that is in debt. The million-dollar Townsend Silver contract could save the firm, but the wealthy playboy Alan Townsend (Arlen) wants an amateur from high society rather than a professional model to become "the Townsend Girl." Upset that she was passed over sight-unseen as a professional, Brewster's top model (Lupino... Leer todo

  • Dirección
    • Raoul Walsh
  • Guionistas
    • Edmund Beloin
    • Russel Crouse
    • Walter DeLeon
  • Elenco
    • Jack Benny
    • Ida Lupino
    • Richard Arlen
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    6.0/10
    401
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    • Dirección
      • Raoul Walsh
    • Guionistas
      • Edmund Beloin
      • Russel Crouse
      • Walter DeLeon
    • Elenco
      • Jack Benny
      • Ida Lupino
      • Richard Arlen
    • 13Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 7Opiniones de los críticos
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    • Nominado a 1 premio Óscar
      • 2 premios ganados y 1 nominación en total

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    Jack Benny
    Jack Benny
    • Mac Brewster
    Ida Lupino
    Ida Lupino
    • Paula Sewell…
    Richard Arlen
    Richard Arlen
    • Alan Townsend
    Gail Patrick
    Gail Patrick
    • Cynthia Wentworth
    Ben Blue
    Ben Blue
    • Jupiter Pluvius
    Judy Canova
    Judy Canova
    • Toots
    Charles Adler
    • Yacht Club Boys Member
    • (as Yacht Club Boys)
    James V. Kern
    • Yacht Club Boys Member
    • (as Yacht Club Boys)
    George Kelly
    • Yacht Club Boys Member
    • (as Yacht Club Boys)
    Billy Mann
    • Yacht Club Boys Member
    • (as Yacht Club Boys)
    Cecil Cunningham
    Cecil Cunningham
    • Stella
    Donald Meek
    Donald Meek
    • Dr. Zimmer
    Hedda Hopper
    Hedda Hopper
    • Mrs. Townsend
    Anne Canova
    • Specialty
    • (as Canova Family)
    Martha Raye
    Martha Raye
    • Specialty
    Zeke Canova
    • Specialty
    • (as Canova Family)
    Andre Kostelanetz
    • Orchestra Conductor
    Russell Patterson
    Russell Patterson
    • Russell Patterson
    • Dirección
      • Raoul Walsh
    • Guionistas
      • Edmund Beloin
      • Russel Crouse
      • Walter DeLeon
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    7tavm

    Artists & Models was quite a hodge podge of musical numbers with some nice comedy from Jack Benny

    Okay, let me address the "Public Melody No. 1" number: As staged by Vincente Minnelli (this being his first film assignment), it's quite an energetic dance sequence with fine trumpet playing and singing by Louis Armstrong and great singing and dancing by Martha Raye. Now if she had real dark burnt cork with white lips, I'd have a real problem with her makeup but since she looks authentic as an African-American woman, I give this one a pass. As for the rest of the movie, well, Jack Benny is fine being mostly deadpan especially when a clip of his radio show with Don Wilson announcing has his character in the movie commenting on it! Judy Canova is an acquired taste but I mostly enjoyed her hillbilly characterization. That Connee Boswell number was wonderful and deserved an Oscar nomination but why was she not lit brightly? Ben Blue was funny whether performing with Ms. Canova or with some stringed puppets playing instruments. Young Ida Lupino was quite a beauty back then, wasn't she? I think I've said enough so on that note, I say give Artists & Models a look.
    5planktonrules

    With Jack Benny in the lead, you'd think it would be a more enjoyable film.

    This film is nothing like I anticipated. Crazy as it seems, I actually expected that with Jack Benny in the lead that it would be a comedy...and that, sadly, was not the case. Instead, it's a musical with a lightly comedic touch--but NOT a comedy. If you're looking for laughs, you're more likely to find them in an Ingmar Bergman film! "Artists & Models" begins with Benny owning his own advertising firm. He's a total failure and one step away from bankruptcy. However, rather out of the view, a young millionaire (Richard Arlen) approaches him to run a million dollar campaign. Arlen would like to feature some society woman in his advertising and Benny's girlfriend, Ida Lupino, is disappointed. She's a successful model and is angry that she won't even be considered. So, she sneaks off to where she heard Arlen is headed--determined to convince him that she is this society dame.

    Along the way, there are a bazillion musical interludes--some pretty good and many very bad. The worst comes late in the film where Martha Raye stars in a Black musical review--and she's in black-face (uggh) with the likes of Louis Armstrong. I cringed as I watched this one.

    Overall, the film is a rather tedious musical. Nothing terrible but nothing particularly good, either. It's a shame, as with this cast, it should have been a lot more interesting.
    6rdoyle29

    Only kinda works

    Jack Benny stars as the owner of a bankrupt as agency. He can save his company by landing the $1 million Townsend Silver account. He convinces the company's owner, playboy Richard Arlen, that the secret to success is finding the Townsend Girl and getting her to be the queen of the annual Artists & Models Ball. Arlen agrees, but the catch is that he does not want the Townsend Girl to be a professional model. He wants a society girl. Young model Ida Lupino overhears and travels to Florida to pose as a society girl and land the Townsend Girl job. This film's split down the middle ... half screwball comedy, half musical. The comedy elements work well, the musical elements are terribly creaky.
    8lugonian

    Brewster's Campaign

    ARTISTS AND MODELS (Paramount, 1937), directed by Raoul Walsh, stars the legendary comedian Jack Benny in a lively musical as Mac Brewster, the head of a failing advertising agency who tries to promote a new campaign, the Artists and Models Ball. He uses Paula Sewell (Ida Lupino), his fiancée, to pose as a socialite who later falls in love with Brewster's important client, Alan Townsend (Richard Arlen), in fact, his only client. Brewster is given the task of crowning a queen of the Artists and Models Ball, and Paula goes after the crown to be awarded at the ball by Townsend. Because Paula is snubbed for being a professional model instead of a débutante, she grows more determined, taking the next airplane to Miami to compete against Cynthia Winworth (Gail Patrick), an attractive socialite who catches the eye on Brewster. In between song numbers, situations arise during the Artists and Models Ball when Brewster's engagement is to be publicly announced, first to Cynthia at 11:30, and to Paula at the stroke of midnight.

    The supporting cast includes Cecil Cunningham as Stella, Brewster's secretary; Hedda Hopper as Mrs. Townsend, Alan's mother; along with Sandra Storme as herself in a brief model bit; Peter Arno, McClelland Barclay, Arthur William Brown, John Lagatta and Rube Goldberg as the artists; Russell Patterson's Personettos; and Andre Kostelanetz and his Orchestra.

    While not "colossal, tremendous, gigantic, stupendous, the super special epic of the year" as addressed during the opening and closing of the story by Brewster's wacky associates (played by the Yacht Club Boys) who not only supply some wild antics, but one comedic musical number that opens up the story which has Brewster politely offering his opinion that "It stinks." Aside from that, ARTISTS AND MODELS succeeds with its amusing screenplay and its share songs and musical numbers in the lineup.

    The musical program in order as they appear includes: "Sasha-Pasha" (performed by the Yacht Club Boys); "Pop Goes the Bubble" (written by Ted Koehler and Burton Lane/ sung by Judy Canova); "Whispers in the Dark" (written by Frederick Hollander and Leo Robin/ sung by Connee Boswell); "Stop, You're Breaking My Heart" (by Koehler and Lane/ sung by Judy Canova and Ben Blue); "Mister Esquire" (by Koehler and Victor Young/ instrumental with Ben Blue surrounded by puppet musicians); "The Ballad of Frank and Jesse James" (performed by The Canova Family); and "Public Melody Number 1" (by Koehler and Lane/ sung by Martha Raye and Louis Armstrong).

    Judy Canova, who would specialize in hillbilly roles later in her career, is given a substantial role as Ida Lupino's best friend and roommate (labeled under her own name but addressed as Toots). Of her memorable highlights, the first finds Canova in the shower singing "Pop Goes the Bubble," stepping out to unwrap a towel, revealing a bathing suit underneath; and her confrontation with a "screwball" lover-boy named Jupiter Pluvius II (Ben Blue), a rainmaker whose father, it is revealed, was responsible for the Johnstown flood, leading to the amusing "Stop You're Breaking My Heart" number. Blue also takes part in a quite original number, "Mister Esquire," which is performed by Russell Patterson's Personnettos, or better known as "live" puppets playing musical instruments.

    Interestingly, while Canova's interplays could have been performed just as well by Martha Raye, who had performed similar chores as the loyal friend-type from THE BIG BROADCAST OF 1937 (1936), is given a specialty musical act set in Harlem titled "Public Melody Number 1," opposite Louis Armstrong. Darkened up in the style of a light- skinned Negress, she belts out the lyrics with the sounds of Armstrong's trumpet playing and gun shots scoring out in the background. Vincente Minnelli is credited for direction of this production number. This Raye/ Armstrong number, along with the Canova Family ballad about outlaws Frank and Jesse James were usually eliminated from television prints in order to fit in this 100 minute movie into a 90 minute time slot plus commercial breaks. Fortunately the complete and unedited version of ARTISTS AND MODELS has turned turn up February 1, 2009, on Turner Classic Movies. On a final note, Connee Boswell, one of the singing Boswell sisters, seen only in silhouette, is the vocalist to the soothing "Whispers in the Dark," which becomes a large scale swimming number. This song was nominated for an Academy Award.

    Aside from these production numbers taking a major part, its top-billed star Jack Benny does find time in supplying some real funny moments on screen, including he being mistaken by underwear salesmen as a model, and his physical examination with Doctor Zimmer (Donald Meek). There's even some inside humor as Brewster is escorting Cynthia (Gail Patrick) to the Artists and Models Ball and walking past a live radio where announcer Don Wilson is introducing Jack Benny, followed by Benny going on the air, "Hello, again, this is Jack Benny talking ..." Mac: "Very clever fellow, I've always liked him." Cynthia: "Oh, really, I've never cared for him." Mac: "Oh, well, everyone to his own taste.

    The success of ARTISTS AND MODELS did intend for new annual musical series, which is hinted by the Yacht Club Boys ("Hey boss, have we got it, a great idea for the show next year.") Although Paramount did distribute another, ARTISTS AND MODELS ABROAD (Paramount, 1938), bringing back Jack Benny, this time playing Buck Boswell, and the Yacht Club Boys, with Joan Bennett assuming the female lead. Unfortunately, ARTISTS AND MODELS ABOARD didn't do as well to proceed with other editions to the series. However, in 1955, Paramount released a musical comedy, ARTISTS AND MODELS, starring the comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, but bears no relation to the Benny films except in name only. For a good time, stick with the original. (***)
    6Doylenf

    Amusing but very dated musical styles from '37 in Jack Benny film...

    Pleasant enough musical from Paramount featuring JACK BENNY as a man who must find a socialite model for the ARTISTS AND MODELS ball being sponsored by one of his wealthy clients (RICHARD ARLEN). A very young IDA LUPINO co-stars as a model who sees her big chance if she snags the queen of the ball title by making Arlen believe she's a socialite.

    GAIL PATRICK, HEDDA HOPPER, JUDY CANOVA and GIL LAMB have featured supporting roles, while MARTHA RAYE and LOUIS ARMSTRONG have a Harlem themed specialty number (with Raye in blackface) that's better left unmentioned.

    The songs are sprightly but the musical taste is strictly from the late '30s. Some of the jokes are amusing but many of them fall flat. DONALD MEEK gets some laughs as a doctor who mistakenly takes his own heartbeat for Benny's and predicts he shouldn't even be walking around.

    It passes the time pleasantly enough for those who like these rather creaky musicals from the past before MGM took over with their splashy Technicolored musicals. One of the hit songs, "Whispers in the Dark," (nominated for an Oscar) is sung by Connee Boswell who sings the entire number in dim lighting so that her features are barely even visible.

    Some good moments, but a very uneven hodge podge of comedy and music.

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    • Trivia
      The "Public Melody #1" number, featuring Martha Raye and Louis Armstrong, became Vincente Minnelli's first film assignment.
    • Citas

      Cynthia Wentworth: Oh, Mac, you have so much to learn about love.

      Mac Brewster: I guess so. You know, father was always gonna have a talk with me, but he kept putting it off.

    • Versiones alternativas
      A sequence showing Louis Armstrong and Martha Raye performing together was ordered removed by some southern US distributors.
    • Conexiones
      Featured in Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns: Swing: Pure Pleasure - 1935-1937 (2001)
    • Bandas sonoras
      Whispers in the Dark
      by Friedrich Hollaender and Leo Robin

      Sung by Connee Boswell with Andre Kostelanetz and his Orchestra

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 13 de agosto de 1937 (Estados Unidos)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
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      • Artist and Models
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Ángeles, California, Estados Unidos(Studio)
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      • Paramount Pictures
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