There have been countless movies advertising the terrible life of show business, but for some reason, they never prevent young idiots from flocking to Hollywood or Broadway. Comet Over Broadway is another advertisement to stay very far away from the theater, unless it's your goal to have a difficult, upsetting life and wreck the lives of those around you.
Kay Francis wants to be a star more than anything in the world, and as everyone knows, you have to be willing to do anything to make it. Every cliché in the book is in this movie about what a young hopeful has to sacrifice to become a starlet. You've heard of it, Kay Francis does it. This is a pretty melodramatic movie, typical of the early 1930s, so if you don't usually like drama drizzled on top of drama for no reason, you probably won't like this one. I didn't really like it, because everything could have been avoided if Kay Francis decided to settle down for a normal life. A good therapist could have helped her, and saved me an hour.
