Glorifying the American Girl (1929)
Paramount has been fussing with this idea for many months. As a result, this backstage trifle as a peg on which to hang big, girly scenes is stone-cold turkey, for all it has the use of the Ziegfeld name and stars. The coldly beautiful Mary Eaton, as the girl who breaks into the "Follies" to get glorified, is merely cold and beautiful. The fragile story is left hanging before the picture is half over. Only an Eddie Cantor comedy bit marks the grave of an idea that was left to die. All Talkie.
Photoplay January 1930
Vintage magazines
Photoplay , September 1929
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Photoplay , January 1930
Books with substantial mentioning of Glorifying the American Girl
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Edwin M. Bradley The first Hollywood musicals, A critical filmography of 171 features, 1927 through 1932 Jefferson, N.C., 1996 pp. 72-74 
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