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Musical Monday: Sweetie (1929)

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It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.
In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals.

This week’s musical:
Sweetie (1929) – Musical #821

Studio:
Paramount Pictures

Director:
Frank Tuttle

Starring:
Nancy Carroll, Helen Kane, Jack Oakie, Stanley Smith, William Austin, Stuart Erwin, Joseph Depew, Wallace MacDonald
Specialty performers: The King’s Men

Plot:
Biff Bentley (Smith) is the star football player at Pelham University in North Carolina. He’s engaged to chorus girl Barbara Pell (Carroll), and Biff is planning to elope with Barbara. But at the last minute, when Barbara arrives, Biff decides to stay at school to help the team. Shortly after, Barbara learns that she has inherited Pelham University. Still smarting from her heartbreak, she decides to take this opportunity to get back at Biff and the football team.

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Musical Monday: Sunny Side Up (1929)

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It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.
In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals.

This week’s musical:
Sunny Side Up (1929) – Musical #396

Studio:
Fox Film Corporation

Director:
David Butler

Starring:
Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Marjorie White, Sharon Lynn, El Brendel, Frank Richardson, Jackie Cooper (uncredited)

Plot:
Wealthy Jack Cromwell (Farrell) is fed up with his flirting fiance, Jane (Lynn). One night he drives to New York City and meets working girl Molly (Gaynor), who recognizes him from the society pages. Jack decides to take Molly back to Long Island to make Jane jealous. Jack sets up Molly in an apartment and she poses as a society woman. Molly is in love with Jack, but rumors start that Molly is Jack’s “kept woman.”

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