Sunnyside Up (1929)





You'll eat this one up, and it furnishes its own cream and sugar. Janet Gaynor turns loose her cute little singing and speaking voices in a story of high life and low in New York, and Charles Farrell is on hand to woo her with more than gestures.

"Sunny Side Up" is another Cinderella yarn, with the rich young Farrell finding the poor young Gaynor at a block party on the New York East Side. This will never do, thinks Charlie. Before you know it, Janet has cut out the rich gild friend, played by Sharon Lynn, and the Gaynor-Farrell love team scores a thumping old touchdown in the last minute of play. El Brendel, Fox favorite, furnishes a lot of laughs, as does Marjorie White, a pert little piece from the musical comedy stage. The De Sylva, Brown and Henderson music is particularly gay. Janet pipes the theme song, and nearly everybody has a tune or two in his system.

Something new for Janet and Charlie, after their royal line of sobby little love stories. But they came through like good troupers, and you'll care for the result. The bright little picture shows that we can have our songs, dances and loves without going backstage for them. And don't forget to keep your eye on the White girl. She should go far.
All Talkie.

Photoplay December 1929



Vintage magazines

Photoplay , December 1929
Photoplay , December 1929
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Photoplay , January 1930

Books with substantial mentioning of Sunnyside Up

Don Tyler
The Great Movie Musicals
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2010
pp. 295-296 info

John Howard Reid
These Movies Won No Hollywood Awards, A Film-Lover's Guide to the Best of the Rest
2005

Edwin M. Bradley
The first Hollywood musicals, A critical filmography of 171 features, 1927 through 1932
Jefferson, N.C., 1996
pp. 125-129 info

James Robert Parish
Hollywood's Great Love Teams
New Rochelle, N.Y., 1974

Books with an entry on Sunnyside Up

Aubrey Solomon
The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935, A history and filmography
Jefferson, N.C., 2011