BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

blanche-2 Marion Davies, Pat O'Brien, Frank McHugh, Dick Powell, Mary Astor, Lyle Talbot, and Allen Jenkins star in "Page Miss Glory," from 1935.Davies is plain-Jane Loretta Dalrymple, who comes to New York, asks to see the manager of a swanky hotel, and says she wants a job as a chambermaid.In the hotel is the broke photographer Click Wiley (O'Brien), and Ed Olson (McHugh). They're something like three weeks in arrears at the hotel, and have to be out by Tuesday.They see an ad from a yeast manufacturer offering a reward for a photo of "America's Prettiest Girl." Ed gets to work and makes a composite up of all the beautiful movie stars and names the woman Dawn Glory.Dawn wins, and everybody wants a piece of her. Even the famous aviator Bingo Russell (Powell) is crazy over her photo and proposes mid-flight.When a gown shows up for Dawn, Loretta tries it on, and after a little work, she becomes the photo of Dawn Glory. In those days, platinum blond hair went a long way.Loretta has everything a girl could want - new clothes, shoes, makeup, living in a gorgeous suite, but she's a bird in a cage. Click is determined to keep her away from the press, particularly a reporter (Talbot), and he doesn't want her running off with Bingo. She's miserable.Good movie, with Davies again showing her comic abilities as the chambermaid turned beauty, and she's surrounded by wonderful actors. Mary Astor's role is never really explained - she seems to be a friend of Click's and company - she shows her comic flare without having much to do.O'Brien and McHugh are at it again, and they're a great team as always. Patsy Kelly as a maid and friend of Loretta's always played to the back of the house. Powell sings like a dream. An amazing man, and sadly all but forgotten today. I'm so glad TCM shows his films. Imagine going from singing and playing juveniles to giving Aaron Spelling and Sam Peckinpah their starts in show business.A real send-up of celebrity, and quite funny, though in those days it wasn't as easy as it is today. Back then, you actually had to do something in order to become a celebrity, even if it was winning a contest.

GManfred In fact, the cast is about the only thing "Page Miss Glory" has in its favor. It is a 1930's comedy which has Marion Davies playing a slow-witted rube (think Gomer Pyle) who comes to the Big City to find a job. She catches on as a housemaid in a hotel, where Pat O'Brien and Frank McHugh are staying. They are con men who hear about a beauty contest on the radio and cook up a scheme to win the prize money.It's not worth going into detail from there, because what follows is a dull story with a lousy script and jokes that fall flat, many of which have 'so's your old man'-type punch lines (I told you it was a 30's comedy). The camera lingers too long on some jokes and situations, taking some of the starch out of the humor, and Miss Davies overplays her part and flattens other spots which could have been funnier.O'Brien and Mc Hugh do their best, with O'Brien relying on his loud, rapid-fire delivery to gin up excitement. Mary Astor is on hand with little to do and is given some stale dialogue, and the same for Allen Jenkins, Barton MacLane and Patsy Kelly. The title song is fair at best. All in all, a forgettable effort directed by, of all people, Mervyn LeRoy, who should have known better.

calvinnme ...so if you are expecting a typical Marion Davies vehicle in which she is the center of attention most of the time you're going to be disappointed. However, if you're just looking for a fun fast moving comedy in the tradition of 1930's Warner Brothers this will hit the spot.There are two con-men (Pat O'Brien and Frank McHugh) inventing the concept of Photoshop over 50 years before it is a practical reality by entering a composite photograph in a beauty contest and winning, Marion Davies being brave enough to parade around before the camera for almost a full hour as an overweight plain chamber maid, and Dick Powell as a Dudley DoRight type of ace pilot with a chest full of medals who proposes to the beauty contest winner, who is, of course, a girl he's never even met since she doesn't exist. Marion's chamber maid character returns the sentiment having fallen in love with the pilot's picture. Mary Astor plays the mismatched and possessive fiancée of Frank McHugh's character.In short this movie is intentionally ridiculous fun. It pokes fun at publicity campaigns and what makes people famous and interesting to the press and has plenty of that rapid fire dialogue for which Warners was famous in the 30's. Just take off your thinking cap and enjoy.

jayms Like "Front Page Woman," this is a comedy I'd never heard of and only discovered because of TCM. Fast paced dialogue played with relentless Looney Tunes energy make this a sharp spoof of media manipulation and public gullibility that holds up well nearly 70 years later. Marion Davies inhabits her slow witted small town girl thrust into the limelight. Dick Powell parodies himself as the Hero of the Air who falls in love with her picture and proposes before they've ever met. Pat O'Brien and Frank McHugh share a wonderful rapport as the con artists behind it all. Only Mary Astor seems wasted as she has little to do though she does it with elan. Treads similar territory to `Nothing Sacred' or more recent offerings like `Simone' and `Wag the Dog.' Highly recommended.