Originally produced in the United States as a motion picture and released in 1932. Lupe Velez, Lee Tracy, Eugene Pallette, Frank Morgon. From the story by Ben Markson and H.N. Swanson; suggested by "Phantom fame" by David Freedman. Full screen (1.37:1).
Summary:
"Flim-flamming carny barker Jimmy Bates (Lee Tracy) vows to turn a hooch dancer into a Broadway sensation. Since the hooch dancer is played by incendiary Lupe Velez, the screen's Mexican Spitfire, it's a good bet she's going to see her name in lights! To start, Jimmy passes off his protégé as a Turkish princess and goes straight to the Imperial Suite at a posh Manhattan hotel. Now all he needs to generate a blitz of ballyhoo is a lion and 30 pounds of raw meat ordered from room service -- and in a New York minute, the hooch dancer is a headliner."--Container.
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