Play! Girls

Joe May is exhausted after a long, futile day of auditions for his show. He wants a quiet evening with no show biz talk. His assistant offers to have his wife give May a home-cooked dinner, and cautions her on the phone against shop talk. So of course she has four acts ready for him to see.

This sort of ten-minute variety show was a common one among the "selected short subjects" advertised alongside the feature movie back in the day. For the studios, it was a way of producing something that would play enough to show a profit, and a way of show-casing talent inexpensively to see how the movie-goers reacted to them. A screen test might impress a seasoned producer, but you could never tell about the actual audience.

Play! Girls (1937)

** (out of 4)

Joe May plays a talent agent who is trying to find girls for his upcoming show but he's not having any luck. He decides to take a break from the search so that he can get some dinner but his assistant sets him up to where he's going to have to see some more talent before eating.

PLAY! GIRLS is a pretty forgettable picture from Educational who were a really, really low-budget studio who delivered very cheap productions. This one here doesn't contain any laughs, any romance, any drama or anything else for that matter. We get a couple song performances as well as a male and female dance team but none of the acts are all that entertaining. I'd say that this film is mildly entertaining if you're a fan of this type of thing but there's certainly nothing here to recommend to people.