Pirate Party on Catalina Isle

Here is another of the Lou Lewyn shorts in which various Hollywood celebrities dress up and attend a party. Lewyn had been doing sort of short since he had come up with the first successful property for Harry Cohan's CBC Pictures. 1920 was the year, and the idea was SCREEN SNAPSHOTS. After five years of that series, he was gone from what had become Columbia Pictures. He spent the next 15 years producing this sort of picture. Here, Metro is footing the bill for Technicolor, and the MGM performers get most of the screen time, except for Charles 'Buddy' Rogers. He was married to Mary Pickford, and you didn't annoy her, nor William Randolph Hearst, which explains why Marion Davies get good billing.

Some nice pictures, and ok musical numbers like "Smooth Sailing" round this out pleasantly.