Earl Carroll Vanities

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Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies. Carroll's annual "Vanities" provided story material for three Hollywood films: Murder at the Vanities (34), A Night at Earl Carroll's (40) and Earl Carroll Vanities (45). This last film was produced by Republic Pictures, a bread-and-butter studio specializing in Westerns and serials; Republic had made musicals before, but few of them were expensive enough to allow for lavish production numbers. Earl Carroll Vanities is likewise rather threadbare, though some of the individual musical highlights aren't bad. The plot, such as it is, concerns financially strapped nightclub owner Eve Arden, who finagles Earl Carroll into staging one of his revues at her club.

Country:

United States of America

Genre:

Romance,

Music

Duration:

92 minutes

Year:

1945

Director:

Joseph Santley

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Company:

Republic Pictures

Cast:
Dennis O'Keefe

Danny Baldwin

Constance Moore

Drina

Eve Arden

Tex Donnelly

Otto Kruger

Earl Carroll

Alan Mowbray

Grand Duke Paul

Crew:
Joseph Santley

Director

Frank Gill Jr.

Screenplay

Cortland Fitzsimmons

Original Story

Jack A. Marta

Director of Photography

Richard L. Van Enger

Editor