Fashion from the 1934 movie musical film is a 1934 American comedy film directed by William Dieterle with musical numbers created by Busby Berkeley and led. Manuscript by f. Hugh Herbert and Carl Erickson was based on the history of fashion of Harry Collins and Warren Duff. The film stars William Powell, Bette Davis, Hugh Herbert and Frank McHugh, and songs by Sammy Fain (music) and Irving Kahal (lyrics).
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Then the Manhattan investment firm leaves from Sherwood Nash (William Powell), he collaborates with his partner snap (Frank McHugh) and dress designer Lynn Mason (Bette Davis) to provide discount shops of cheap copies of Couture in Paris. Lynn discovers that top designer Oscar Baroque (Reginald Owen) gets its inspiration from old books, fantasy, and she begins to make drawings in the same way, signing with the names of the set designer.
Sherwood realizes Barokks companions alleged Grand Duchess Alix (Verree Teasdale), actually Mabel Mcguire, his old friend from Hoboken, New Jersey and runs the risk of revealing your identity when she convinces baroque to design the costumes of the musical Revue in which she will star. Baroque buys in the supply of ostrich feathers Sherwood kroni Joe Ward (Hugh Herbert) and starts a fashion rage.
Sherwood then opens Maison elegance, new fashion house in Paris is a great success until Baroque discovers Lynn develops his sketches. He was arrested, but Sherwood convinces the police to give him time to remedy that situation. He crashes Baroque and Alixs wedding and promises to humiliate the designer publicly disclose that the bride actually if Baroque withdraws the charges. Designer agrees and purchases Maison elegance from Sherwood, Lynn he will never get involved in other illegal activities, if she returns to America with him.
Production
With this film from Warner Bros. head Jack Warner tried to change the screen persona of Bette Davis, placing it in a blonde wig and false eyelashes and dressing her in glamorous costumes. The actress, who tried to convince the Studio head of credit it to RKO so she could portray slatternly waitress Mildred Rogers in slavery, was shocked by the transformation, complained that they were trying to turn it into Greta Garbo. In an interview with Photoplay editor Kathryn Dougherty she complained, "I can't let this terrible practice. They will simply not be serious to me. Look for me in the photo as a third category of imitation of the MGM glamour Queens. Not me I will never be a clothes horse or romantic symbol. " Gerald Clarke, she lamented, "I looked like someone's clothing of the mother. But it was a big break because I learned from the experience. I never let them do it for me again. "Never!"
Working titles for the film, which was filmed at Warner Bros. Burbank studios in 1933, became King of fashion and fashion Follies of 1934. Warners listed writers Gene Markey and Kathryn Scola, based on an original story that lies at the core of the film, but according to the screen Writers Guild has nothing to do with the film.