By Violet LeVoit
Tanned Legs
Brief Synopsis
A husband and wife chase younger lovers while their daughter takes up with a crook.
Cast & Crew
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Marshall Neilan
Director
June Clyde
Peggy Reynolds
Arthur Lake
Bill
Sally Blane
Janet Reynolds
Allen Kearns
Roger
Albert Gran
Mr. Reynods
Film Details
Genre
Comedy
Musical
Release Date
Nov
10,
1929
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
RKO Productions
Country
United States
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 6m
Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
6,377ft
(7 reels)
Synopsis
At a fashionable beach resort, Mr. Reynolds is having an affair with Mrs. Lyons-King, whom his daughter Peggy suspects to be an adventuress; Mrs. Reynolds is fascinated with Roger, a boyfriend of another youngster; and Janet, Peggy's sister, is enamored of Clinton Darrow. Mr. Reynolds is about to be persuaded to buy some worthless stock, and Darrow has possession of some indiscreet letters from Janet. Janet enters Darrow's room in a vain effort to retrieve them and, without her knowledge, is seen by Bill and Peggy. Threatened with extortion, Janet plans to kill Darrow but, instead, she accidentally wounds Peggy. Roger, a friend of Peggy's, obtains the letters during a fake robbery, and Peggy is reconciled with Bill.
Director
Marshall Neilan
Director
Cast
June Clyde
Peggy Reynolds
Arthur Lake
Bill
Sally Blane
Janet Reynolds
Allen Kearns
Roger
Albert Gran
Mr. Reynods
Edmund Burns
Clinton Darrow
Dorothy Revier
Mrs. Lyons-King
Ann Pennington
Tootie
Lincoln Stedman
Pudgy
Lloyd Hamilton
Detective
Crew
Film Details
Genre
Comedy
Musical
Release Date
Nov
10,
1929
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
RKO Productions
Country
United States
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 6m
Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
6,377ft
(7 reels)
Articles
Tanned Legs -
No false advertising here - this roaring '20s musical features tanned legs and lots of them. Everybody's having sun and fun on this vacation - sun because they're at the beach, and fun because everyone's having a fling - Mr. Reynolds (Albert Gran) and his wife (Nella Walker) are pursuing a thrill-seeking woman (Dorothy Revier) and someone else's young boyfriend (Broadway performer Allen Kearns), respectively, while their kids Peggy (June Clyde, who got the part because of her legs) and Janet (Sally Blane, sister of Loretta Young) pursue their own conquests, all with lots of carefree hotcha dancing to songs provided by Oscar Levant. Directed by disgraced alcoholic Marshall Neilan making something of a comeback at RKO, this quickie musical was shot in Laguna Beach without musical numbers until RKO got wind of Fox making Sunnyside Up (1929) and decided to start over as a musical after a few days shooting. One of the few early sound musicals that truly captures the devil-may-care spirit of the 1920s before the Depression gave even the lightest song-and-dance pictures a grim and desperate edge.
By Violet LeVoit
By Violet LeVoit
Tanned Legs -
No false advertising here - this roaring '20s musical features tanned legs and lots of them. Everybody's having sun and fun on this vacation - sun because they're at the beach, and fun because everyone's having a fling - Mr. Reynolds (Albert Gran) and his wife (Nella Walker) are pursuing a thrill-seeking woman (Dorothy Revier) and someone else's young boyfriend (Broadway performer Allen Kearns), respectively, while their kids Peggy (June Clyde, who got the part because of her legs) and Janet (Sally Blane, sister of Loretta Young) pursue their own conquests, all with lots of carefree hotcha dancing to songs provided by Oscar Levant. Directed by disgraced alcoholic Marshall Neilan making something of a comeback at RKO, this quickie musical was shot in Laguna Beach without musical numbers until RKO got wind of Fox making Sunnyside Up (1929) and decided to start over as a musical after a few days shooting. One of the few early sound musicals that truly captures the devil-may-care spirit of the 1920s before the Depression gave even the lightest song-and-dance pictures a grim and desperate edge.
By Violet LeVoit
