Acting
Gloria Stuart's luminous pre-Titanic star power.
Score
Schertzinger's original compositions that age like wine.

Director
Victor Schertzinger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gloria Stuart filmed this during her brief 1930s stardom, decades before Titanic made her the oldest Oscar nominee ever.
One of the few surviving pre-Code musical dramas preserved by the Library of Congress, representing Hollywood's brief obsession with European-style operatic storytelling before the Production Code sanitized everything.