The Goldwyn Follies

Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person.

Cast

Adolphe Menjou

as Oliver Merlin

Vera Zorina

as Olga Samara

Kenny Baker

as Danny Beecher

Andrea Leeds

as Hazel Dawes

Edgar Bergen

as Edgar Bergen

Helen Jepson

as Leona Jerome

Phil Baker

as Michael Day

Ella Logan

as Glory Wood

Jerome Cowan

as Director

Charles Kullmann

as Alfredo in 'La Traviata'

Reviews

CyrusPK

There is a sense of both hesitancy and confidence in this strange work from Samuel Goldwyn. The former comes through in the need to try and sell the idea of culture in the form of opera and ballet to his audience by having it seen and endorsed through the eyes of Miss Humanity, an honest rural wo...

CinemaSerf

Adolphe Menjou is producer "Oliver Merlin" who selects "Hazel Dawes" (Andrea Leeds) to be his modern day arbiter elgantiae - to keep him in touch with the mood of the ordinary person on the street. Good idea, in principle, but he doesn't particularly agree with her; nor does he really know how to im...

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