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The Girl from Calgary
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Wikipedia article
'The Girl from Calgary' is a 1932 American pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Phil Whitman, and starring Fifi D'Orsay and Paul Kelly.
Plot summary
A French-Canadian girl is a champion bronc rider and is also a nightclub singer. An ambitious young man sees her act one night and is struck by her talent, realizing that she is good enough to become a Broadway star.
He convinces her to accompany him to New York, where she indeed does become a Broadway star. However, the young man finds himself being squeezed out by greedy Broadway producers who see the talented young girl as their own personal gold mine.
Cast
*Fifi D'Orsay as Fifi Follette
*Paul Kelly as Larry Boyd
*Robert Warwick as Bill Webster
*Edwin Maxwell as Earl Darrell
*Astrid Allwyn as Mazie Williams
*Edward Fetherston as Monte Cooper
*Adrienne Dore as Lulu, Darrell's secretary (uncredited)
Production background
* The first reel, with an elaborate musical number, is taken from 'The Great Gabbo' (1929) which had at least one sequence filmed in Multicolor.
* When originally released, the first reel of 'The Girl From Calgary', approximately seven minutes including the title credits, was in 2-strip Magnacolor. Reviewers at the time commented on the poor quality of the color, registration problems, and lack of focus. In surviving prints, this sequence is in black-and-white, with a replaced title card that includes a 1951 copyright statement.
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