Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaAl Howard may be a star on Broadway, but he is no longer welcomed by any producer. It seems that he just trots off to Mexico any time he wants causing shows to close and producers to lose mo... Leggi tuttoAl Howard may be a star on Broadway, but he is no longer welcomed by any producer. It seems that he just trots off to Mexico any time he wants causing shows to close and producers to lose money. When his sister Molly can no longer find Al work, she teams him up with talented Doro... Leggi tuttoAl Howard may be a star on Broadway, but he is no longer welcomed by any producer. It seems that he just trots off to Mexico any time he wants causing shows to close and producers to lose money. When his sister Molly can no longer find Al work, she teams him up with talented Dorothy for a club date in Chicago. Flush with another success, Al wants to open his own club ... Leggi tutto
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"Go Into Your Dance" is a highly flawed movie and the main character, Al (Al Jolson), is an oddly written guy--and it makes you wonder WHAT the writer was thinking! After all, he plays a successful Broadway star (what a stretch!) who is a jerk. Again and again, when he has a successful show he gets bored and simply walks away...leaving everyone in a lurch. This makes his character a seriously bad person...leaving backers and actors to be ruined simply because he gets bored! Well, by the time this film starts, he's once again disappeared and is down in Mexico having a good time...and he's burned about every possible bridge. So, when he has an idea about putting on a new show, backers are naturally unexcited about it. And this gets me to the HUGE problem with the film...the audience watching this picture also feels the same way---Al is a jerk and you DON'T want to see him succeed. Why would Jolson agree to make this film as it makes him look awful...just as terrible as the guy Ruby Keeler used to say he was like off stage!?
What you get in this film is pretty much what you'd expect otherwise. Jolson sings a lot and there are a lot of production numbers. And, unfortunately, Al gets the break he simply doesn't deserve. But what does he do with it? See the film.
I noticed that I am one of the few reviewers who thought the movie was fatally flawed. Obviously the other viewers could look past Al's nasty history of ditching shows because he got bored. They also apparently could look past Jolson doing a black-face number-- something he was famous for over the course of his career. As for me, the film was a decent time-passer and no more. It did end well and got better as the film progressed. I also noticed that a lot of the actors yelled their lines--particularly Barton MacLane and Ruby Keeler. Oddly, Patsy Kelly didn't!
What Go Into Your Dance really was meant to do is try to save the Jolsons marriage which was in free fall by then. Al's egomania didn't make him the easiest person to live with and within a few years Keeler called it quits. For the rest of her life she would never answer one question about life with Jolson.
Warner Brothers did assemble a good cast for them. Al plays an irresponsible, egomaniacal entertainer, no stretch in the casting department. He's walked out on too many a show as his sister Glenda Farrell tells him, no producer will hire him. Never mind says Jolie, he'll produce his own with a new dancer he's discovered, Ruby Keeler.
Producing costs money and that means going to gangster Barton MacLane whose trampy wife wants to resume her show business career. Jolie gets the money and the wife played by Helen Morgan. But his problems are only beginning.
Bobby Connolly did the dance direction and I have to say pinch hit admirably for Busby Berkeley. The big hit song of the film was Jolson singing and Keeler dancing to About a Quarter to Nine. It was nicely staged and worthy of Berkeley in every sense of the word as Berkeley gave Jolson that awful Going' to Heaven on a Mule in Wonder Bar. In this film the chorus of male dancers and Jolson all turn to blackface for a minute. Jolson also does the finale title song in blackface as well.
Unfortunately not only does Jolson do blackface, but in this film, not once, but twice he rubs the head of black actor Fred "Snowflake" Toone for good luck. That particular bit of tastelessness kept Go Into Your Dance off the television screens for decades. I remember seeing it on WOR TV's million dollar movie as a lad in the Fifties, but never again until recently.
The real pity is that we were also deprived of seeing Helen Morgan sing as well. Her alcoholism had gotten pretty bad at this point, but she was one of Broadway brightest stars. She sings The Little Things You Used to Do in her typical poignant fashion. It would have really been great to see her co-star with Jolson in a film, but that was not to be.
Go Into Your Dance is quite a museum piece of a film and if you're not into Jolson, I would urge you to see it for Helen Morgan.
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- QuizThis was the only film that Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler made together during their 12-year marriage, which lasted from 1928 to 1940.
- Citazioni
Dorothy Wayne: Well, I finally met your brother.
Molly Howard, aka Lucille Thompson: Yeah, where is he?
Dorothy Wayne: Flat on his back, out cold, back of the Shim Sham.
Molly Howard, aka Lucille Thompson: What happened to him?
Dorothy Wayne: Well, man meets girl, girl meets husband, husband meets man, man meets sidewalk.
- Curiosità sui creditiOpening card: Broadway..The street of ups and downs, where show business in 1935 was at top speed.
- ConnessioniEdited into Musical Memories (1946)
- Colonne sonoreGo Into Your Dance
(1935) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Al Dubin
Played during the opening credits
Played during a rehearsal and sung by Al Jolson
Also performed by Al Jolson at the Casino De Paree at the end
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- Data di uscita
- Paese di origine
- Lingua
- Celebre anche come
- Casino de Paree
- Luoghi delle riprese
- Union Station - 1050 Kettner Boulevard, San Diego, California, Stati Uniti(exterior establishing shot of the Santa Fe Depot)
- Azienda produttrice
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Botteghino
- Budget
- 703.000 USD (previsto)
- Tempo di esecuzione
- 1h 29min(89 min)
- Colore
- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 1.37 : 1