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For the 1930s this is quite a revealing movie about how men use women and vice verse. It's as if this love quadrangle could have been filmed yesterday if it had starred current Hollywood actors/actresses who have already lived through such situations in their actual love lives.

Escaping depression era problems, many moviegoers went to the theater to forget the reality of their lives. The opulence of the sets and glamorous gowns might have provided the female viewers of the time with an opportunity to fancy the lives of the rich.

It's a classy, clean romp that might be considered for a re-make with a lot more skin showing.

The acting may be wooden in a few scenes, but altogether is made for a delightful viewing.

I thoroughly enjoyed it.

This movie delves into a problem that is very prevalent in society - people so obsessed with their bodies that they will do anything to change or improve them no matter how many friends they may lose along the way.

Working out at the gym is simply not enough for some people to get the body they want so they turn to surgery. Some of what is presented in this movie probably motivated Michael Jackson wanting the perfect nose and the 'purist' skin.

I would like to have known more of Tomax later life after his surgery. There was time to do this in the movie.

There was also time to pursue Katie's life, particularly what motivated her to work-out five hours a day seven days a week yet look like she was anorexic.

Flashbacks with the other characters would have been the way to identify their problems, not just with Tomax.

A lot more could have been done to have made this movie more believable. Although it averages 4.4 I gave it a higher number because it was well staged and extremely well-acted.

I just wanted more than it gave.

I remember Judy Canova on radio and the silver screen and she came across on the radio much better than she did on the screen. Her radio programs had more comedy situations in a thirty minute program than in an hour and a half movie. In longer movies the comedy aspect in her character seems to wane. The singing is always the greatest, and in this movie, I wish she had sung more of her popular numbers of the 1940s. "You Are My Sunshine" would have been great in this movie.

Her Western movies were much better than this example of a movie with a misleading title that can be confused with a former Shreveport, LA, country music program that competed for awhile with the Grand Ole Opry.

Nevertheless, Judy was a comedian with perfect timing, although totally country in the movie 'Louisiana Hayride,' which has its ups and downs with some questionable movie producers who are trying to make a fast buck on bumpkin Judy who has been given some lease money on her land that is producing oil. The 'Hollywood Studio' is simply a pawn shop where the shysters often take their loot, and is not a producing movie studio.

The plot for this movie is almost a dead-ringer for the TV series 'The Beverly Hilbillies: backwoods people with oil money go to Hollywood to make the big time and be taken advantage of. The only character missing is that of Jed Clampett. Judy's mother could have been Granny, Judy might have been Ellie Mae, and Judy's brother could be Jethro. I wonder if the writers for 'The Beverly Hillbillies' saw 'Louisiana Hayride' and got the idea for a TV series from it.

All in all, it was fun to catch Judy Canova on the screen again, but there are better performances out there that should be given some air time.

The voting tally for this movie was a mere six before the movie was shown recently, but has now jumped to seventeen, so there are a few old-timers out there that cared enough to see Judy again. TCM, just give us more, please. Judy is an interesting diversion.