Benny and Flo are a husband-and-wife dance team starring in a new Broadway revue. When the show quickly flops, the two are forced to look for other employment and eventually find work in a nightclub, becoming famous in the process. But their relationship is tested when Flo attracts the attentions of a sophisticated millionaire playboy...
Acting
Barbara Bennett's pre-Code fire — sister of Constance and Joan!
Direction
Bert Glennon's camera finally moves after static early talkies.
Score
Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians swing harder than the plot.
Director
Bert Glennon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Barbara Bennett was the least famous Bennett sister — Constance was a star, Joan became legendary, and Barbara? This and obscurity.
Shot during the chaotic transition to sound, this captures Broadway revues right as the stock market crashed — the escapism aged weirdly fast.
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