Earl Carroll Vanities
Earl Carroll Vanities
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.
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Cast
Robert J. Wilke
as Cab Driver
Edward Gargan
as Policeman
Donald Kerr
as Assistant Dance Director
Charles Sullivan
as Mugg
Tommy Ivo
as Tommy
Bobby Barber
as Cab Driver
Charles Coleman
as 2nd Butler
Otto Kruger
as Earl Carroll
Harry Parke
as Walter
Leon Belasco
as Baron Dashek
Chester Clute
as Mr. Weems
Constance Moore
as Drina
Eve Arden
as Tex Donnelly
Mary Forbes
as Queen Mother Elena
Beverly Lloyd
as Cigarette Girl
Wilton Graff
as Mr. Thayer
Robert Greig
as Vonce the Butler
Margia Dean
as Chorine
Charles Dorety
as Waiter
Ethelreda Leopold
as Chorine
Pinky Lee
as Pinky Price
Frances Gladwin
as Dancer
Jack O'Shea
as Cab Driver
Stanley Price
as Sandwich Man
Sarah Selby
as Mrs. Thayer
Dennis O'Keefe
as Danny Baldwin
Stephanie Bachelor
as Claire Elliott
Tom Dugan
as Waiter in Tex's Club
Rex Lease
as Policeman
Alan Mowbray
as Grand Duke Paul
Tom London
as Tom the Doorman
Adele Mara
as Chorine
