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
Dennis O'Keefe
Constance Moore
Eve Arden
Otto Kruger
Alan Mowbray
Stephanie Bachelor
Pinky Lee
Mary Forbes
Harry Parke
Leon Belasco
Tom Dugan
Chester Clute
Tom London
Beverly Lloyd
Edward Gargan
Robert Greig
Wilton Graff
Tommy Ivo
Melva Anstead
Bobby Barber
Joy Barlow
Joan Blair
Joan Byron
Martha Carroll
Charles Coleman
Margia Dean
Charles Dorety
Bobbie Dorree
Geraldine Farnum
Frances Gladwin
Harriette Haddon
Rosemonde James
Jimmy Kelly
Donald Kerr
Marian Kerrigan
Helen Klinkner
Rex Lease
Ethelreda Leopold
Guido Lombardo
Adele Mara
Marie McCardle
Rose Marie Morel
Diana Mumby
Jack O'Shea
Patti Posten
Stanley Price
Arlyn Roberts
Jane Ross
Vicki Saunders
Sarah Selby
Dorothy Stevens
Charles Sullivan
Robert J. Wilke
