Fritz Feld is making a musical western, but his leading lady can't do a southern accent, so he promotes Kathryn Kane from studio waitress to John Carroll's leading lady in this nifty Technicolor comedy short.
There are a lot of insider jokes, and some open to outsiders. Feld's character is based on autocratic Michael Curtiz, with his occasional malapropisms; a love song Carroll sings as Miss Kane paddles him in a birchbark canoe is meant to make fun of MGM's recent hit, ROSE MARIE, and so forth. There's a look at some Warner Brothers contract players, including Bogart and Pat O'Brien, and the Technicolor is, like most of Warner's color efforts in this period, lush.
There are a lot of insider jokes, and some open to outsiders. Feld's character is based on autocratic Michael Curtiz, with his occasional malapropisms; a love song Carroll sings as Miss Kane paddles him in a birchbark canoe is meant to make fun of MGM's recent hit, ROSE MARIE, and so forth. There's a look at some Warner Brothers contract players, including Bogart and Pat O'Brien, and the Technicolor is, like most of Warner's color efforts in this period, lush.