Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . you'll wake up dead, but apparently it doesn't work that way in the Cartoon Universe. When Busby Berkeley has the live-action chick go over the high-rise balcony during "Broadway Melody," movie goers figure that she's kicked the bucket on pretty much every level. But when PAGE MISS GLORY's dozing bellboy floats down to the sidewalk like some specter of 9-11, strains of "Broadway Melody" trailing after him in the background, a streetcar stops just short of slicing him in half, so that the screaming hotel desk clerk can wake him up. However, despite that fact that Warner Bros. animators have drawn in many religious symbols and parables here, some of which could be taken as Islamic, I do not think that this is either Warner's most overt warning of an approaching September 11, or that that sad event is the primary focus of this cartoon. While it's true that more people died trapped inside elevators then than on any other date in recorded history, and PAGE MISS GLORY's hapless Bellboy becomes a Plinko Game Chip in elevators running amok, this is probably just a coincidence, or maybe a Real Bad Dream.

charlytully I'd never seen the short 'toon PAGE MISS GLORY until this week (or if I did, it was so long ago that all I retain is a subliminal memory of the denouement), but the cartoon people reminded me of the ubiquitous long-nosed "Kilroy was here" WWII graffiti drawing and also of the cartoon work of Robert Crumb, who emerged in director Terry Zwigoff's 1994 documentary CRUMB as perhaps the most extreme American misogynist NOT behind bars. It's been 15 years since I viewed CRUMB, so I cannot remember if Robert lists PAGE MISS GLORY as an influence. Given what happens to the hapless bellboy Abner in the 1936 'toon, culminating in a comeuppance from the least of females, perhaps it's not stretching a point to speculate this cartoon may have permanently messed up Robert Crumb's psyche.

Lee Eisenberg The overblown musicals of the 1930s easily set themselves up to get parodied (in my opinion, it was outright inappropriate of Hollywood to make these sorts of movies given that the country was in the midst of the Great Depression). One spoof was Tex Avery's "Page Miss Glory", which has also been known simply as "Miss Glory" to avoid confusion with a movie by the same name. It portrays a bellhop in a hotel in Hicksville awaiting the arrival of a glamorous movie star. When she doesn't come, he dreams that he's a bellhop in an Art Deco hotel probably spoofing the average Fred Astaire flick. But boy does he have a surprise coming at the end! I've always liked how the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoons poked fun at the popular culture of their eras. Granted, this is one of the rarer ones (I watched it on YouTube). Apparently, some of the characters are caricatures of the Warner Bros. animation staff (among them Chuck Jones). Either way, it's a pretty interesting relic of their early days.

Bruce Pantages In the mid 1930's Cosmopolitan Productions, a W. R. Hearst subsidiary for the purpose of producing and promoting his mistress, Marion Davies', moved from M.G.M. to Warner Brothers. Page Miss Glory was the title of a feature film starring Miss Davies and this cartoon shares not only the lilting song from the feature film, but also its title and a caricature of its star. The action occurs in the "Cosmopolitan" Hotel (get it?). It is all packaged in a dream sequence that goes from a hick town to an art deco metropolis and to say that it is eye candy all the way is to understate. There is a Busby Berkeley style musical number in the middle of the proceedings and of course the Marion Davies character is heavily featured as the mysterious and elusive "Miss Glory." Fun stuff! Don't miss this one.