Ben Mankiewicz Intro - Straight, Place And Show (1938)

Straight Place And Show (1938) -- (Movie Clip) A Horse, Not A Convict!

Straight Place And Show (1938) — (Movie Clip) A Horse, Not A Convict!

Straight Place And Show (1938) -- (Movie Clip) With You On My Mind

In the opening scenes no trace of the stars (The Ritz Brothers) but we’ve met “society horsewoman” Barbara (Phyllis Brooks) who was late for her own engagement party, and her fiancè (Richard Arlen) and his discarded admirer, Broadway’s Ethel Merman, with an original by Lew Pollack and Lew Brown, in Straight Place And Show, 1938.

Straight Place And Show (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Rootin' Hootin' Tootin' Cowboys

So far we’ve only met the high-society horse-owning foils to the headliners but here the stars are introduced at the track, Ritz Brothers Jimmy, Harry and Al running a kiddie show, with a specialty number by Sid Kuller, Ray Golden and Jule Styne, early in Straight Place And Show, 1938.