George White's Scandals

1934
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1h 20m

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Jimmy Durante, Alice Faye, and Rudy Vallee in George White's Scandals (1934)

Opening with a credit line that reads "Entire production conceived, created and directed by George White," a film evolves where the only plot line is a thin backstage romance between Jimmy M... Read allOpening with a credit line that reads "Entire production conceived, created and directed by George White," a film evolves where the only plot line is a thin backstage romance between Jimmy Martin and Kitty Donnelly in and around a dozen or more sketches, revues, black-outs and si... Read allOpening with a credit line that reads "Entire production conceived, created and directed by George White," a film evolves where the only plot line is a thin backstage romance between Jimmy Martin and Kitty Donnelly in and around a dozen or more sketches, revues, black-outs and singing and dancing turns. Made before the birth of the production code, reviewers of the da... Read all

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6.2/10

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- 2 wins total

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Trivia
Eighteen-year-old Alice Faye, the female vocalist with Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees, was slated to make her screen debut in a featured spot. Then in a Hollywood fantasy come to life, Lilian Harvey, a musical favorite of European moviegoers, decided that the female lead was rather secondary and withdrew from the film. Enter Alice, at Rudy Vallee's suggestion, to fill Miss Harvey's shoes. Billed third after Mr. Vallee and Jimmy Durante, Miss Faye was bestowed with a saucy hit song, "Nasty Man" (music by Ray Henderson, lyrics by Irving Caesar and Jack Yellen), followed quickly by a movie contract with Fox.

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Quotes
Happy McGillicuddy: [KItty looks distressed] What's the matter, baby? What happened? Who hurt you?
Kitty Donnelly: Oh, it's Jimmy.
Happy McGillicuddy: What did he do, get fresh with you? Why I'll... .
Kitty Donnelly: No, Happy!
Happy McGillicuddy: I always wanted an excuse to kill a crooner.
Kitty Donnelly: Happy, please.
Happy McGillicuddy: Don't worry, honey. They don't do anything to you for killing crooners. Maybe fine you five bucks, that's all.
Kitty Donnelly: But I don't want you to do anything to Jimmy.
Happy McGillicuddy: No megaphone muffler's gonna do anything to you, not while the flower of knighthood blooms in this descendant of Richard the First, the Fifth, no, the Seventh. Skip it. I forgot the number.
Kitty Donnelly: Happy, I'm leaving the show.
Happy McGillicuddy: Yeah, in that case, George White is minus me. Because where you go, you go and where I go, I go. And that goes for the both of us.

Crazy credits
Entire production conceived, created and directed by George White.

Connections
Featured in Playboy: Inside the Playboy Mansion (2002)

Soundtracks
Nasty Man
Music by Ray Henderson
Lyrics by Jack Yellen and Irving Caesar
Performed by Alice Faye and chorus

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Featured review

Alice Faye's Rousing Debut

The ineffable Alice Faye made her film debut in this rousing backstage extravaganza, an interesting assembly of Broadway revue, comic sketches, songs, and dancing, in which she played an aspiring singer Kitty Donnelly and her romance with Rudy Valle. Although the movie is loaded with big-scale Busby Berkeley-inspired production numbers, its chief virtue is to watch and be mesmerized by Faye's glorious singing, her distinctive contralto voice.

This is the movie where Faye sings "Oh, You Nasty Man" -- one of her most cheerfully lurid (though not necessarily the best), songs. Other songs and numbers include "So Nice", "Every Day's a Father's Day", "Following in the Mother's Footsteps", "Sweet and Simple", "Picking Cotton", and "The Man on the Flying Trapeze".

Audiences applauded Faye's vivacity, and the movie made her an instant musical star. Up until her 1936 musical, "Sing, Baby, Baby", Faye really looked like a Jean Harlow-ish platinum blonde with pencil eyelashes. A year later she starred in a follow-up, "George White's 1935 Scandals" - also worth seeking out, if only for Faye's singing.