If I Could Learn to Love (1929)

If I Could Learn to Love as Well as I Fight, music by M.K. Jerome, lyrics by Herman Ruby. Sung by Georges Carpentier, with Patsy Ruth Miller and Alice White.

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Film & Animation

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• If
• Could
• Learn
• to
• Love
• as
• Well
• Fight
• Georges
• Carpentier
• M.K.
• Jerome
• Herman
• Ruby
• Patsy
• Ruth
• Miller
• Alice
• White
• The
• Show
• of
• Shows
• 1929
• musical

[ClarasBeau]

I'm not so sure that this film was so "reviled" (as some say here) at the time. From what I've read, the public did eventually tire of such "revues", because the studios all were turning out their own versions, and I guess they decided that they preferred stories, rather than a string of specialty acts. Still, I imagine at the time that many moviegoers remained curious about how their silent stars sounded in the "talking pictures". And you can see that some money was thrown at these projects.

[meanvince]

@ghbook Georges was my great great uncle. Thanks for your kind words about him. That's really made my day!

[swallin19]

Not so much a bad film, look at the Date...1929, The Wall Street Crash was the main reason all films took less money for a while, Musicals were expensive to make, and they got cut first. The Public actually liked them , as soon as Warners resumed Musicals they were top earners again.

[Nlangdon]

THE SHOW OF SHOWS was so horrid audiences fled the theatres and distributors began refusing all musicals or revues. The "Musical Blackout" of 31-32 was completely caused by this disaster. Admittedly there are several scenes worth watching, like Winnie Lightner's numbers. It opens with a funeral dirge and a poor guy getting his head lopped off. The closing number, "Lady Luck," drags on for hours, leaving plenty of time to ponder ones laundry or anticipate your next dental office visitation.

[ghbook]

Georges Carpentier was a boxer, a world champion. I remember seeing him, when i was young, talking about his carreer in a french TV show. He was an old man, but tall and still handsome

[swallin19]

From Warner's "Show of Shows" the musical extravaganza, an incredible collections of stars and acts, parts were shot in colour, but lost, like the finale, some like the "Chinese fantasy" exist and have been posted.