Before Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, the screen's great operetta team was Alexander Gray and Bernice Claire, a pair of musical theatre performers who co-starred in three features, all in 1930. This adaptation of a popular Rodgers and Hart show is the only one to survive, with the earlier No, No Nanette and the later The Song of the Flame mostly lost. Claire stars as an heiress torn between the millionaire playboy (Lawrence Gray, no relation) who thrills her and the more serious millionaire playboy (the other Gray) her father (Ford Sterling) wants her to marry. Complicating matters are a younger sister (Inez Courtney) who wants A. Gray for her own and a daffy mother (Louise Fazenda) whose advice might help if it made any sense. As happened so often, Hollywood only kept a few of the songs from the original, with Claire and Alexander Gray dueting charmingly on the popular "Yours Sincerely" and a reprise of "With a Song in My Heart." The other songs were provided by Sam Lewis, Joe Young and Harry Warren, and one "Cryin' for the Carolines," actually became a modest hit. But that wasn't enough to help the film. Released during a glut of musical pictures, it lost money.

By Frank Miller