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Alice Faye: Excellent Fox
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Fun action tale set in China stars Alice Faye as a mysterious woman on the run who meets drunken newsman Warner Baxter and fend off Mongolian rebels at an all but deserted U.S. embassy. Charles Winninger is awesome as the veteran U.S. consul. Excellent quality.
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In her early roles Fox saw Faye as a potential Jean Harlow clone. Her hair was dyed platinum blonde, her eyebrows were plucked, and she was cast in ''tough girl'' roles. When Fox merged with 20th Century Pictures in 1935 new studio head Darryl F. Zanuck softened Faye's image. With her natural hair and eyebrows Faye was cast in a series of ''nice girl'' roles. Zanuck's tactic paid off, and Faye quickly became the studio's top box office draw.
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A fascinating film about silent era Hollywood stars Don Ameche and Alice Faye (thinly veiled Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand) as a producer and his comedienne star. Also starring J. Edward Bromberg and in cameos Buster Keaton and Al Jolson. Technicolor. Excellent quality.
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In early 1934, Fox bought the screen rights to the sexy Cole Porter stage musical (that starred Gertrude Lawrence) specifically for its reigning star Alice Faye. The restrictive Production Code was instituted and made the sexy project unfilmable.
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It was the one-two punch of ''In Old Chicago'' and ''Alexander's Ragtime Band'' in 1938 that made Ms. Faye a top box-office draw. A year later she and Mr. Power were teamed for the last time in ''Rose of Washington Square,'' a fictionalization of the Nicky Arnstein-Fanny Brice story that was later the basis for the Broadway and Hollywood musical ''Funny Girl,'' which starred Barbra Streisand. Ms. Faye had been responsible for Mr. Power's stardom. In 1936, when he was only an extra, she insisted that Fox test him.
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That absence essentially spelled the end of Faye's reign at Fox. Betty Grable had become the studio's new box office darling. When Faye returned to work in 1945 she was cast in the drama
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