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On with the Show!

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On with the Show!	label	On with the Show!
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On with the Show!	comment	On with the Show! is a 1929 film directed by Alan Crosland.It is one of the many musicals that flooded cinemas at the beginning of the talkie era. The plot revolves around a stage musical called The Phantom Sweetheart. Everybody in the show is hoping to make a big success on what is closing night of the off-Broadway production, so that the show will get picked up for a Broadway run, but there are problems. Bob Wallace, the slimy investor behind the show, has withdrawn funding. Consequently the producer, an affable sort named Jerry, can't pay his actors. Sam Bloom, who sold all the sets to Jerry, is demanding payment or he'll repossess the sets. Stars Nita French (Betty Compson) and Sarah Fogarty are continually sniping at each other. Harold, the male lead in the show, desperately needs money to send to his flat-broke mother, and is threatening to quit if he isn't paid. Meanwhile, there's sweet, innocent Kitty, who is working as a coat check girl with the production but would love to actually be in the show. Wallace the scumbag offers to invest in the play again, and make Kitty the star—but only if she has sex with him.The show actually has a packed house, and Jerry is hoping that if he can somehow stall Sam Bloom, he can pay his actors with the gate receipts, and then maybe get the show on Broadway. But the gate receipts are stolen!This film was originally shown in two-strip Technicolor, but only fragments of the Technicolor version survive. It's most commonly shown in a surviving black-and-white print. Ethel Waters, who was already a famous jazz and blues singer, has two numbers.
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On with the Show! / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
On with the Show! / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: In the show-within-a-show, Harold's character sings about his "phantom sweetheart." Near the end, when Kitty is hysterical after her father's been arrested, Jerry tells her that she has to go on for the ending anyway: "Always! On with the show!"
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On with the Show! / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
On with the Show! / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: Close to Real Time, spanning a single performance of a stage musical.
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On with the Show! / int_30f1cd6c	type	The Musical Musical
On with the Show! / int_30f1cd6c	comment	The Musical Musical: A film about one night in the production of a stage musical, with, of course, lots of numbers.
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On with the Show! / int_355bc288	type	Lingerie Scene
On with the Show! / int_355bc288	comment	Lingerie Scene: A shot from the back of a wardrobe closet shows a series of half-naked chorus girls reaching into the closet for costumes. Nita spends pretty much the whole movie, off-stage and on, in lingerie. Towards the end she makes a crack about how she "took off her clothes, and went to work."
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On with the Show! / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
On with the Show! / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: It turns out that Nita isn't Wallace's Casting Couch girlfriend, she's his wife. Outraged when she finds out that he tried to have sex with Kitty, she literally beats him up, forcing him to not only sign over his share of the production to Jimmy and Kitty, but also to float Jerry a loan to get the show to Broadway.
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On with the Show! / int_4143f84f	type	Leg Focus
On with the Show! / int_4143f84f	comment	Leg Focus: There are lots of shots showing off Nita's legs. At one point Sarah comes into the dressing room, finds Nita waxing her legs, and says "Rack that thing up!"
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On with the Show! / int_4d30004d	type	Wedding Ring Removal
On with the Show! / int_4d30004d	comment	Wedding Ring Removal: After Jimmy gets judgmental and pissy about catching Kitty in a storeroom with Wallace, Kitty, who after all was only trying to stop Jimmy from getting arrested, pulls off her engagement ring. She gets over it quickly, though.
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On with the Show! / int_8163e2bb	type	Dramatic Drop
On with the Show! / int_8163e2bb	comment	Dramatic Drop: Kitty drops the congratulatory flowers she was just given, after she finds out her father has been arrested.
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On with the Show! / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
On with the Show! / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Sam Bloom is introduced by Jerry greeting him with "How is that great big prop and scenery magnate?"
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On with the Show! / int_a08199ec	type	The Dog Was the Mastermind
On with the Show! / int_a08199ec	comment	The Dog Was the Mastermind: The thief of the gate money wasn't any of the more likely suspects, but "Dad", Kitty's meek, elderly father, who was working the ticket booth. Dad invested in the show, and stands to lose everything if the show closes, which apparently it will after Wallace pulled his money and Sam Bloom showed up to repossess the sets.
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On with the Show! / int_a10d8339	type	The Show Must Go On
On with the Show! / int_a10d8339	comment	The Show Must Go On: Where the movie title comes from, as Jerry tells Kitty to go back out for the last scene of the show even though her father's just been arrested and she's dissolving in tears.
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On with the Show! / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
On with the Show! / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: Ethel Waters appears as herself, and sings two numbers, including her song "Am I Blue?" which would become one of the biggest hits of the era.
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On with the Show! / int_b7c45771	type	Single Malt Vision
On with the Show! / int_b7c45771	comment	Single Malt Vision: A joke in The Phantom Sweetheart. A character who is supposed to be a drunkard sees the twins and thinks that he is seeing double.
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On with the Show! / int_bf780240	type	Boy Meets Ghoul
On with the Show! / int_bf780240	comment	Boy Meets Ghoul: In the show with the show, Harold's character, who is supposed to be getting married, has fallen in love with a ghost. Subverted at the end when it turns out that the "ghost" is actually real.
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On with the Show! / int_c044f854	type	Speak in Unison
On with the Show! / int_c044f854	comment	Speak in Unison: The Dorothy Twins, identical twins who are featured in the show, sometimes do this.
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On with the Show! / int_c0e3994b	type	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
On with the Show! / int_c0e3994b	comment	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Nita gets Wallace to save the show, and let Dad off the hook, by—beating the hell out of him. Sure he deserves it, what with being an adulterous scumbag and nearly raping Kitty, but still.
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On with the Show! / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
On with the Show! / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: The Phantom Sweetheart, a stage production set in the Deep South, about a guy who falls in love with a ghost.
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On with the Show! / int_ce165390	type	Casting Couch
On with the Show! / int_ce165390	comment	Casting Couch: Wallace is not subtle about how he'll get Betty in the show if she has sex with him. Everyone thinks that's what happened with Wallace and Nita, his lover and the star of the show, but that example is subverted in the end when Nita reveals that she and Wallace are married.
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