Artists and Models (1937 film)
- Jack Benny: Mac
- Ida Lupino: Paula
- Richard Arlen: Alan
- Gail Patrick: Cynthia
- Cecil Cunningham: Stella
- Judy Canova: Toots
- Donald Meek: Dr. Zimmer
- Hedda Hopper: Mrs. Townsend
Artists Ball is an American comedy film from the year 1937. The screenplay is based on a story by Sig Herzig and Eugene Thackrey.
Action
Mac Brewster, owner of an advertising company, will be appointed as Chairman of the " Artists and Models Ball" and must now look for prom queen. With the businessman Alan Townsend he has closed a deal for a million dollars. He wants to make the " Townsend Silver Girl" to the queen. His girlfriend, the model Paula Sewell, he promises to make it the belle of the ball. But Townsend wants an actress, he wants a normal girl.
When Cynthia Wentworth appears in Townsend, to gather for a charitable purpose, he offers her that to be Townsend Girl. At the same time makes Mac Paula to marry him. Paula is sure to be the right choice. She travels to Miami, where it mixes as Paula Monterey among the rich. She meets Alan and spends the night with him. When they jump evening together in the pool, she called Alan Cinderella. At the same time Mac meets Cynthia, who he considers to be a model. When he learns that she is one of the Wentworth Park Avenue, he sees in it the Townsend Girl.
In Miami Paula keeps the facade of a Society Girls upright. Alan sees in her the Townsend Girl. Mac and Cynthia arrive in Miami and meet with Alan and Paula. Mac now learns that Alan has promised the job of Townsend Girls on Paula, into which he has fallen in love. Paula dissolves Mac and confesses her love for Alan. Alan's mother gets out that Paula is a professional model and believes that Paula had used her son. But Alan allows her to stay the Townsend Girl.
Two months later, on the evening ball, make an application to both Paula and Cynthia Alan. Paula's home companion Toots tells Alan that Paula love him. Paula is crowned prom queen. She loses a shoe that gives her a costumed Alan. Paula and Alan leave the stage as a happy couple, as well as Cynthia and Mac.
Criticism
The lexicon of the International film describes it succinctly as " entertaining Hollywood comedy. "
Frank S. Nugent of the New York Times described the film as a friendly, bright and original, one of the liveliest comedies of the cinema season. The script had humor, Walsh staging quietly and smoothly, the committed cast bring the film vim and vigor.
Awards
1938, the song Whispers in the Dark by Friedrich Hollaender and Leo Robin was nominated for Best Song Oscar in the category.
Background
The world premiere production of Paramount Pictures took place in New York on 4 August 1937. In Germany the film was first published on 7 May 1978 at the context of a television premiere in the third program of the HR.
The film is one of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed 1929-1949 and the film rights were sold to Universal Pictures in 1958.
A guest appearance had Martha Raye and Louis Armstrong with their number Public Melody # 1, which was played at the ball. The choreography took over Vincente Minnelli, who worked the first time for a Hollywood movie here. Other guest appearances had the singer Connee Boswell and the cartoonist Peter Arno, Rube Goldberg.