George White's 1935 Scandals
Cast & Crew
James Tinling
Alice Faye
James Dunn
Ned Sparks
Lyda Roberti
Cliff Edwards
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
George White, just having finished a successful run of his musical show, "Scandals," travels by train to Florida for a vacation. On his way, he passes through Crossways, a small town in Georgia, where he is surprised to see his own name on the marquee of the town's theater. His curiosity piqued by this blatant attempt to capitalize on his success, George leaves the train and buys a ticket for the show. The show plays to a mostly empty house, but George is impressed by the talents of Honey Walters, a young singer. George offers Honey a job singing in his show in New York, and Honey's Aunt Jane, who failed in her own attempts to become a performer and who now has high hopes for her niece, encourages him to hire Eddie Taylor, Honey's childhood sweetheart and a composer, of whom Aunt Jane is also fond. George agrees, and back in New York, Eddie and Honey are a big success. However, at a club, Eddie meets the washed up actress and singer Miss Marilyn Collins, and Daniels, George's rival producer, flirts with Honey. George later learns that Eddie and Honey have been showing up at rehearsals and shows late and have been giving lackluster performances. George confronts Eddie about his conduct, and the young composer takes offense and quits. Next, he catches Honey arriving at the theater late and fires her. Honey asks Daniels for a job, and he offers her his love instead, which she refuses. Meanwhile, Eddie takes a low-paying job in a show in Scranton, Pennsylvania and arrives there to find Honey performing in the chorus line. Aunt Jane arrives at George's theater, hoping to see Eddie and Honey perform, as they have not written her in months. George will not tell Aunt Jane the truth, and he sets her up in a hotel room while he searches frantically for the missing pair. After he discovers that Eddie and Honey have been performing in Scranton, he finds them at the New York train station and puts them back into his show. Their performance a success, Eddie and Honey reunite with a contented Aunt Jane and then announce that they have married.
Director
James Tinling
Cast
Alice Faye
James Dunn
Ned Sparks
Lyda Roberti
Cliff Edwards
Arline Judge
Eleanor Powell
Emma Dunn
George White
The Scandal Beauties
Walter Johnson
Thomas E. Jackson
Jed Prouty
Mae Gohlke
Dee Gohlke
Chico De Verdi
Mike Macey
Tony Abdanor
Rudolf Myzet
Norman Ainsley
Ernesto Zambrano
Martin Garralaga
Nicholas Kobliansky
Emma Dodson
Jack Raymond
Betty Rome
Adele Burian
Josephine Campbell
Charles Blair
Wyn Davis
Eddie Lee
Ruth Marion
Otto H. Fries
Scott Mattraw
Si Jenks
Bobby Dunn
Jack Duffy
Kenny Baker
Tom Ricketts
Charles Richman
Ned Norton
Fredric Santley
Lucille Nicholson
Byron Poindexter
Jack Mulhall
Fuzzy Knight
Donald Kerr
Harry Dunkinson
Sam Mcdaniels
Harrison Greene
Benny Rubin
Toshia Mori
Leilami Deas
Tamara Shayne
Lya Lys
La Gretta
Enrico Ricardi
Blanca Vischer
Paul Mcvey
Iris Shunn
Esther Brodelet
Marbeth Wright
Aloha Wray
Edna Mae Jones
Madelyn Earle
Florine Dixon
Marbeth Wright
Kay Hughes
Mildred Morris
Roger Imhof
Lois Eckhart
Tom Thompson
Jim Blair
Jack De Shon
Doris Baker
Robin Ainsley
Von Adair
Evelyn Carpenter
Virginia Cruze
Virginia Carroll
Jill Carroll
Patricia Dobbs
Eleanor Drury
Margaret Harding
Laurie Lynne
Teddie Lura
Dona La Barr
Helen Macdonald
Thelma Marland
Helen Romaine
Buddy Sterling
Rosemary Smith
Betty Jane Teagarden
Eileen Thomas
Lucille Walker
Diane Dahl
Loretta Andrews
Marvelle Andre
Bobbie Beal
Sam Brown
William Brande
Donald Brown
Bob Crosby
Sally Dolling
Patsy Daly
Carol Lee
Doris Davenport
Frank Edmunds
Susan Fleming
Ercell Woods
Clarise Woods
Dan Wyler
Vera Van
Dorothy Sander
Ed Stanbridge
Rose Tyrell
Beverly Royde
Marion O'connell
Wanda Perry
Betty Mcmahon
Inez Mortensen
Allen Mathews
James Notaro
Maxine Nash
George King
Boyd King
Patsy Lee
Perk Lazelle
Charles Lauder
Edith Haskins
Ruth Hart
Sunny Ingram
Alice Jans
James Gonzalez
Ben Hall
Dan Crimmins
Ralph Banks
Beth Hartman
Maidel Turner
Fred Wallace
Julie Cabanne
Crew
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Robert Bischoff
Edoardo Di Capua
Giovanni Capurro
Ben Crilchty
Louis De Francesco
Luigi Denza
Jack Donohue
Charles Dudley
Tom Dudley
E. Fitzgerald
David Freedman
Cliff Friend
I. Goodon
James Gordon
Sam Hellman
Sam Hellman
Percy Ikerd
J. Bodewalt Lampe
Charles Le Maire
Gladys Lehman
Paul Lockwood
Herb Magidson
Ray Martin
Booth Mccracken
Earl Mckee
Patterson Mcnutt
Joseph Meyer
Al Orenbach
Tom Oulette
Damon Runyon
L. Schindin
George Schneiderman
Winfield R. Sheehan
Anthony Ugrin
A. L. Von Kirbach
Robert Webb
George White
George White
Gordon Wiles
Jack Yellen
Jack Yellen
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
In the same year that this film was released, there was a "George White's Scandals of 1935" playing on Broadway. That show had nothing in common with this film except the title.
First major film role for 'Eleanor Powell' , after having appeared in bit parts in a couple of other films.
Notes
Although the screen credits for this film state "Entire Production Conceived, Produced and Directed by George White," news items and Hollywood Reporter production charts list Winfield R. Sheehan as the producer, James Tinling as the director and Jack Donohue as the dance director. According to correspondence in the Twentieth Century-Fox Records of the Legal Department at the UCLA Theater Arts Library, Damon Runyon allowed Fox to use anything from his "basic idea" for the film, a manuscript of some 5,000 words, at no charge and with no screen credit, as long as the parts that were not used could then be used by him. In a letter, Runyon noted that he understood "they are not using much of this 'basic idea' anyway." Correspondence in the legal files state that Sam Hellman and David Freedman wrote the original story for the film, although they were not given screen credit. Also, according to the legal files, Edmund Hartmann and Robert T. Kane wrote material that they hoped would be used in the film, but which was not used. The legal records indicate that Jack Yellen, Joseph Meyer and Herbert Magidson wrote some additional songs that were not used in the final film, and that Edward Heyman and Johnny Green also wrote a number of songs which were not used. One of these, "Joan of Arkansas," was used in Professional Soldier (see below). According to a Hollywood Reporter news item, three songs by Cliff Friend, Joseph Meyer and Jack Yellen, "I Like It with Music," "Sweet and Low Down" and one whose title was not given, were barred from the film by PCA director Joseph Breen. The news item states that White planned to use the songs in his next Broadway show. According to Variety, the song "The Hunkadola" was intended to be a burlesque on "The Continental" and other dances.
Production charts list Stuart Erwin in the cast, but he was not in the final film. New York Times commented that the film "presents itself as a photographic imitation of a third-rate Broadway revue." According to the legal records and a 1938 Hollywood Reporter news item, a suit concerning the film was settled out of court for the alleged plagiarism of the cover design of the Theatre Magazine August 1929 issue. The cover design, a drawing by Andre Durenceau done in the style of Jean Dupas, had been enlarged to mural size for the Rainbow Room of New York's Rockefeller Center. The filmmakers had obtained permission to photograph the mural for use in constructing a set for a dance by Eleanor Powell, but they had neglected to consult the magazine. Powell made her motion picture debut in this film after appearing on Broadway for several years. Her next film was M-G-M's Broadway Melody of 1936, in which she was the female lead. She made ten more films for M-G-M until her retirement from the screen in 1943, following her marriage to actor Glenn Ford. During her screen career she was called "the female Fred Astaire" and frequently mentioned as the best tap dancer in the world. After retiring she was a guest star in the 1950 M-G-M film The Duchess of Idaho, and revived her night club act in the early 1960s.
