Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue
Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue
NR | 26 April 1938 (USA)
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The scene is set at Billy Rose's Casa Manana Revue, filmed at the Fort Worth Frontier Fiesta (1937), an enormous production created as part of the Texas Centennial civic celebrations. The opening song, "The Night Is Young And You're So Beautiful" emanated from the first edition of the Revue and became a hit song on two continents in 1936.

Reviews
Aiden Melton The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
MartinHafer Billy Rose was a showman famous for putting his name on the titles of his shows and films as well as producing big stage extravaganzas similar to those of Flo Ziegfeld. This one is set at a huge revolving theater built in Texas for their centennial.Supposedly what you see is a lot of the backstage theatrics that go into making a hit show. In this case, the husband-wife dance duo of Dixon and Mason are arguing and she stomps off...refusing to do the show. So, Billy Rose himself manipulates her until she returns for a new musical extravaganza...and, amazingly enough, she never rehearsed the number AND only had five minutes to get ready and the performance is flawless...even though it ALSO includes their young niece!If any of this sounds interesting or worth watching, you are extremely wrong. Tedious and boring are two words that come to mind as you watch these boring acts and the behind the scenes stuff all seems fake and unappealing. Overall, one of the least interesting MGM shorts I have ever seen.
boblipton Elaborate and overproduced, this early George Sidney musical short suffers a bit from the sort of overproduction that Billy Rose's shows were infamous for -- take a look at FUNNY LADY -- that played very well in the period, although the profits for the producer might be pretty iffy. There are a couple of plots shoehorned into the spaces between the numbers, and some excellent care is given to camera placement. But the huge sets and overly elaborate costumes dominate the short.Of course, it's interesting to see what the now legendary Billy Rose looked and acted like, and you can have some fun looking at Peggy Ryan as a real teenager. A few years later she would move to Universal and be teamed with Donald O'conner as teenaged lovers for far too long, but on the whole this is an adequate, but not terribly interesting musical short.