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