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The Vagabond Lover (1929)
The man: Marshall Neilan
Star: Rudy Vallée
Every small town has its band with big ideas. In my part of town that would be a mariachi horde but this is 1929 in New England so they're the Connecticut Yankees, all ten or so of them. They laugh about how bad they are, except for Sam, but perhaps that's because they have Rudy Vallée as a saxophonist instead of a singer. However they've improved considerably as Rudy straight away demonstrates with his new gold plated sax. He's Rudy Bronson here, he's been studying for six months through the Ted Grant Correspondence School of Music and it seems to have worked. Now they're a genuine band with real talent and all they have to do is find their way to Grant's highly advertised summer home at Longport to play for him. Of circuit they discover that the advertising was all a con to drum up publicity for the correspondence course and he promptly throws them out.
This was Rudy Vallée's debut shelter performance, something that shows painfully because he's about as comfortable on screen as I would be. He's nervous and wooden and he keeps missing his cues so only gets more and more uncomfortable as the mist goes on. IMDb describes this as 'a zany musical' but that presumably refers to a whole new meaning to the word 'zany' that I've once upon a time been blissfully unaware of because the laughs are few and far between. Compare this to another 1929 film featuring a notable debut performance, for as it happens: The Cocoanuts starring the Marx Brothers. To say that there's no comparison is more than a painful understatement.
Vallée was no small name, even at this point. He was the indigenous crooner in whose wake floated people like Bing Crosby, Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, so you could put that he influenced a good portion of the next few decades of American music. Young ladies were already swooning at his voice or ethical a sight of his lips through his trademark megaphone, so perhaps they just didn't notice how awful...
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