Times Square Lady

From 1935, Times Square Lady stars Virginia Bruce, Robert Taylor, Henry Kolker, Russell Hopton, Raymond Hatton, and Jack LaRue. This is an early starring role for Taylor, and you could see right away there were others on his horizon.

Bruce plays Toni Bradley, a Texas gal whose father died and left her a bunch of businesses. These include a nightclub, a dog track, a hockey team, etc. Various sports enterprises.

Bradley's gang of low-lifes who run these various functions decide if they can convince Toni that the businesses are losing money, they can get her to sell to them. Then they can turn around and sell the businesses to a rival promoter for big bucks. Steve (Taylor), who runs the nightclub, is assigned to woo Bruce and convince her to sell.

Steve has to convince his girlfriend (Helen Twelvetrees) that it's strictly business with Toni. Toni meanwhile is plenty interested in Steve and can't understand why he hasn't tried to get to first base. You can tell this is an old movie because I know what I'd wonder about if that happened to me.

Taylor and Bruce were involved at the time in real life, and they have great chemistry.

One of the highlights of the film is Pinky Tomlin, who sings "The Object of My Affection," his composition which became a big hit, and another, "What's the Reason I'm Not Pleasin' You" - absolutely delightful.

I have to admit that during the last few minutes of the film, the sound cut out. I was able to figure out how it ended though it was aggravating.

Nice movie and Taylor at the beginning of his stardom.