El crimen del Vanities

Título original: Murder at the Vanities

1934
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1h 29min

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A homicide detective with an eye for the ladies investigating a murder in Earl Carroll's Vanities allows the music review to continue during the investigation.

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Crime Music Musical Mystery Romance

Un detective investiga una serie de asesinatos en el marco de un espectáculo musical que acaba de estrenarse.Un detective investiga una serie de asesinatos en el marco de un espectáculo musical que acaba de estrenarse.Un detective investiga una serie de asesinatos en el marco de un espectáculo musical que acaba de estrenarse.

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Curiosidades
Many of the Earl Carroll Girls featured in the film were authentic cast members from Carroll's stage show, which ran from September 12th to November, 1933, at the New Amsterdam Theatre, and at the Majestic Theatre from November 6th, 1933 to March 10th, 1934. These cast members were brought out to Hollywood from New York especially for this film, and many stayed to pursue film careers.

Pifias
When the body of the woman on the catwalk is turned on her back, you can see the actress' chest rise and fall as she takes a breath.

Citas
[last lines]
Jack Ellery: Nancy, what shall I do?
Nancy: Oh, Mr. Ellery!
Jack Ellery: C'mon, let's do it.

Conexiones
Edited into The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)

Banda sonora
Ebony Rhapsody
(uncredited)
by Arthur Johnston and Sam Coslow
Sung by Carl Brisson, Kitty Carlisle and Gertrude Michael

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7/10

Some Songs with a Movie Wrapped Around It

A fast-paced murder mystery set backstage at a performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities.

It's clear the filmmakers' primary motivation was to showcase the Vanities and realized they needed to wrap a movie around it. Far more screen time is given to the lavish musical numbers featuring countless scantily clad women than to the mechanics of the nominal plot, but that's not a criticism. It's rather fascinating to see this unique brand of stage entertainment captured in all its antiquated glory, and honestly the women are more interesting to watch than the story anyway. And though this is mostly a disposable B movie, it really does come alive in a special way during some of the musical moments, and some of the magic of seeing this kind of show performed live is captured on screen.

The cast includes an appealing Kitty Carlisle and a humorous Victor McLaglen, right before he was to win an Oscar for John Ford's "The Informer." Duke Ellington also makes a cameo.

Pretty fun stuff.

Grade: B+