Marion Davies starring talkie debut is a total triumph. She plays a French country girl wooed by 3 American doughboys during WW I (nicely played by Lawrence Gray, Cliff Edwards & Benny Rubin). But this is Marion's show all the way. This 1929 musical displays Marion's wonderful comic gifts as well as her pretty good singing & dancing. But it's her personality that shines through in this gutsy career move. She was the first major star to try a foreign accent in her talkie debut (she had co-starred in the Hollywood Revue of 1929 that same year). While other stars were fretting over their accents, Marion jumped right in. Now that her "association" with William Randolph Hearst is old news, today's audiences can watch Davies without the baggage and marvel at her comic timing and versatility. She certainly ranks with the decade's best comediennes: Carole Lombard, Jean Arthur & Myrna Loy!!!
