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Minor Interest
The Celluloid Closet

CGiii Rating

Two gay men dance a waltz at a nightclub.
Minor Gay Interest | Worst Film Nominee

Public Rating

Wonder Bar

Country: USA, Language: English, 84 mins

The Celluloid Closet | Comedy | Minor Interest | Drama | 1934
  • Director: Lloyd Bacon
  • Writer: Geza Herczeg; Karl Farkas

CGiii Comment

Total and absolute rubbish.

The music stinks, the dances are chaotic and laughably bad...but, the final musical number is possibly the most offensive ever staged.

Regardless of when it was made - this is a showcase of talentlessness.

Beyond contempt.

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The(ir) Blurb...

Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out, that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane she kills him.

Cast & Characters

Al Jolson as Al Wonder;
Kay Francis as Liane Renaud;
Dolores del Rio as Inez;
Ricardo Cortez as Harry the Gigolo;
Dick Powell as Tommy;
Guy Kibbee as Henry Simpson;
Ruth Donnelly as Mrs. Emma Simpson;
Hugh Herbert as Corey Pratt;
Louise Fazenda as Mrs. Pansy Pratt;
Hal Le Roy as Hal - Blackface Dancer;
Fifi D'Orsay as Mitzi;
Merna Kennedy as Claire;
Henry O'Neill as Richard, the Maitre'd;
Robert Barrat as Captain Hugo Von Ferring;
Henry Kolker as Mr. R.H. Renaud

IMDb

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026007