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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Okay, so Laurel and Hardy aren't the stars., April 27, 1999
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This is a very entertaining little musical starring Jack Haley, Patsy Kelly, and Rosina Lawrence, with Laurel and Hardy as guest stars. Jack is trying to get Rosina a screen test in Hollywood. When Rosina mistakenly believes the screen test is arranged, she heads for California with her wisecracking sister Patsy. While Jack schemes to arrange the screen test, Rosina meets a famous romantic movie star (played by Mischa Auer), Patsy watches Laurel and Hardy film a scene, and there are several unremarkable, but peppy, musical numbers. Of course, there is a happy ending(I'm not saying what it is, but you can probably figure it out).Laurel and Hardy's two scenes are definite highlights, and Patsy Kelly is very funny throughout. Curiously, musical star Jack Haley barely sings at all!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Pick a star aka movie struck, December 20, 2003
Well, I bought this movie to add it to my Laurel & Hardy collection...however this is in no way a Laurel & Hardy film. They make a cameo in this movie really. The movie overall wasn't bad. It was actually a pretty decent film about a girl dying to make it in Hollywood. I wouldn't recommend this movie to a Laurel & Hardy fan but if you like old movie classics you will probably enjoy this one.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Musical comedy feast, with Laurel and Hardy on the side., November 6, 2006
Director Edward Sedgwick, an old hand at visual comedy, successfully leads this Hal Roach road show which tenders a fast-moving and adroit scenario and excellent casting, employing a large number of Roach's reliable performers. Although the film was originally plotted as a vehicle for Patsy Kelly, sunny Jack Haley stars as Joe Jenkins, a young Kansan who sells his auto repair business and journeys to Hollywood, where he attempts to wangle a screen role for the girl he loves, star-struck Cecilia (Rosina Lawrence). Sedgwick, who prefers using the entire M-G-M studio as his set, does so here as Cecilia, always ready for an audition, is treated by a would-be paramour, cinema star Rinaldo Lopez (Mischa Auer), to behind-the-scenes action of, naturally, a musical comedy, featuring Broadway headliner Lyda Roberti. Laurel and Hardy provide several enjoyable interludes, including their well-known skit involving a tiny harmonica, and we watch fine turns by such as Joyce Compton, Russell Hicks and Walter Long. On balance, one must hand the bays to Mischa Auer, who clearly steals the picture as an emotional movie star, a role which he largely creates, and to the director for his clever closing homage to Busby Berkeley's filmic spectacles.
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