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Moonlight and Pretzels (1933)

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Directed by Karl Freund
Written by Jay Gorney, Monte Brice and Arthur L. Jarrett
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A songwriter quits a production and briefly gets a job from a woman who owns/works at a piano store (I wasn't paying very close attention). He moves away to produce his own show, as to not have anybody pushing him around and impeding the creative process. Everything is going fine until he needs to come up with some money before the costumes and settings are repossessed. A gambler who has a crush on the lead actress comes through. He now owns the play. The girl who owned the piano store gets a small role in the play and the songwriter and her are falling in love. Another guy comes into the picture, trying to push the piano girl into the starring role. He wins the play from the gambler and puts the girl in the starring role. Both the lead actress and the songwriter warn the girl that she's going to flop, and then they quit. Now the girl has to decide whether she stars in the play or gives the songwriter his play back.
This is a pretty great movie full of oddball musical numbers. The two best songs/musical numbers are the song about getting dressed and going to work and the end musical number about the stock market crash. This is also an odd musical, as it was made by Universal, which was known for horror movies at this time. Definitely check out this piece of film history.

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