GingerBinge Number Five!!!

...THE... Young Man of Manhattan...

...all you truly need to know from this one is... "Cigarette Me, Big Boy!"...  Of course, I've already cranked out a HueyReview for this one, to be found HERE... as my first attempt at a blog review, not as much 'riffing' on the theme, thus... a pretty straightforward review resulted.

Ginger does have a cute, if not adversarial, role as Puff Randolph, the quintessential flapper from days of yore... at the ripe old age of nineteen... who gets mixed up with newlyweds Toby Randolph (Norman Foster) and Ann Vaughn (Claudette Colbert), by way of Shorty Ross (Charles Ruggles)...

Ruggles is a pretty good 'companion' of sorts for Puff... when he introduces her to Toby, he states: "I found this bit of penitentiary bait in the lobby..." not JAIL bait, mind you... but PENITENTIARY bait... Puff was the REAL DEAL, y'all...

Toby: "I'm not only married... I'm in love!" ...Puff: "With your WIFE?"

...The film overall is a fair watch, for a 1930 joint... I dig Claudette, and, as most of the early films were, it wraps up in just over an hour... plus, there's some cool footage of various sporting events scattered throughout...

...and I can think of no better way to spend a Saturday afternoon that explaining things like "Why do they keep blowing whistles on the field?" to Miss Randolph...although the gooberhead here tells her to shaddup... REALLY? Grrrrrr......

Well, the highlight of this film for Ginger is the 'piano scene', where she cranks thru a few neat tunes, and proceeds to go all Puff Mama on Toby...

The 'open marriage' concept of Toby and Ann soon disintegrates into a typical old married couple...with Toby playing the gooberhead, natch... 

The Puff destroying the 'nekkid dude phone' is cute... if not a bit weird...

...well, that's the last we see of Puff... of course, Toby and Ann reconcile, and the closing credits roll shortly thereafter...

This film is not commercially available to the best of my knowledge, but... it's in the 'public domain'... the copy I have is fairly decent for a 85 year-old film... dang...

Hope y'all get to see this one, as it is Ginger's first feature film, and she already displays those glimpses of pure Gingeryness we live for...


Until tomorrow... KIG, y'all!!!

Hu
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