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"PICCADILLY JIM." Mctro-Goldwyn-Mayer has brought "Piccadilly Jim'' into being in the person of Eobert Moutgomery, who gives one of the most delightful performances of his career in this picture at the Eegent Theatre to-day. It is significant that Robert Z. Leonard, the director of "The Great Ziegfeld," also direeted this picture. His deft touch (s unmistakable. A stellar supporting cost includes Frank Morgan, also of "The Great Ziegfeld" east, Madge
Evans, Eric Blore, Billie Burke, the widow of the famous produce^ in her first picture under her new M-G-M cpntract, Eobert Benchley and others. The picture' s scenes preseut London, New York.and a trans-Atlantic luxury liner with a realism that is possible only to the techuique of the screen. The Wodehouse story was produced intact, with all of its droll situations and its smart comedy. The story concerns a brilliant caricatuxist who falls in love with a girl about whose family hfc knows nothing whatever. When she disappears he launches a quest for her, neglects his work and loses his job. His father, a former actor, played by Frank Morgan, also is in love with a woman of a lofty clan. The boy proceeds to caricature a family he has met and the cartoons take the world in % storm of laughter. His fortune is made. The catastrophe comes when he discovers that he has lampooned the family of the girl he loves. The comedy and romance which develops from this point, provide one of the most notable laugh-plays ever to come from Hollwwood
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 60, 27 March 1937, Page 10
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