CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

MartinHafer This is the first of only three films that Marilyn Miller made. Because she was the toast of Broadway, she didn't really need a Hollywood career and preferred the stage over films. Additionally, she had a drinking problem and died very young from the oddest of reasons....dying while undergoing surgery on her sinuses! So if you want to see her, this is one of your only chances.When the film begins, Sally (Miller) is a poor working girl and isn't very good at her job in the cafe. She aspires to sing and dance on stage but has yet to be discovered. The film follows her from being a waitress to being a star...and all the problems in between.Considering that it's based on the stage play "Sally" (also starring Miller) and it came out in 1929 (when sound technology was rather antiquated), the film is naturally incredibly stagy and the music is very old fashioned. While it played very well in the day, the music doesn't age all that well. It's made worse because late in the film it's one song after another after another...and they are quite tedious. Just a year or two later, sound films in Hollywood were a heck of a lot better and more timeless. Additionally, the film suffers a bit from being a black & white copy. Originally, it was filmed in Two-color Technicolor but only one brief musical sequence remains in color remains today...and it was only recently discovered.As for Joe E. Brown, this film came out before he was an established star and it looks in this movie as if Warner Brothers really didn't know what to do with him. He's much more a supporting character and plays, oddly, a broke playboy and member of the royalty who's working incognito in the cafe!Overall, this film is more of a curio...and oddity, as opposed to a film folks would want to see. Not a terrible film but a difficult one to love, that's for sure.

sideways8 TCM seems to state that it was shot entirely in 2C, but that they've only recovered a dance review 5 min. scrap in color. The rest was in B&W. Interesting period piece of Ziegfeld work. I've saved it.Marlilyn Miller certainly had talent, was very pretty and had a washboard figure, which was probably popular in those days. Seems that you could get a photo of her from the film. Joe E. Brown & she seemed to have fun making this picture. Alexander Gray had a very good voice.Amended 8/06 - I bought a DVD of this flick and watched it again. It was without a doubt the best movie of its type made at that time. I feel that "A.I.", "Days of Heaven" and this flick are the best movies I've ever seen. It was superb at every level. To bad penicillin was not invented 15 yrs. earlier. The loss of Marylin Miller & Janis Joplin were the 2 greatest losses to showbiz of the 20th century. Marilyn would have gone on to be one of the great stars of the 30s' Ginger Rogers has a lot to be thankful for with the death of Miller. Can you imagine her with Astair???

dansavoie Sally, with Marilyn Miller, was the first movie shown at the Chatham Capitol Theatre in Chatham, Ontario Canada - on April 11, 1930. It was originally shown in color, however all the color sequences have been lost. It only survives in Black & White.Sally appears to be a bit dated, as we make our way through this new millennium, but serves as a tribute to the beauty and youth of Marilyn Miller. Miller is a fantastic dancer and gives the role 100%.The film is hard to find, but worth watching if you locate it. Thanks to MGM/UA and Turner for finding the merit to release it on laser disc back in 1993.

Norman-3 Many years ago I heard a recording of a wobbly voiced singer by the name of Marilyn Miller that seemed to belie her reputation as one of the brightest lights that ever shone on Broadway.A few years ago, Turner Entertainment released the remains of what's left of a primitive early talkie called SALLY. SALLY was a legendary stage show first produced by Ziegfeld in 1919, representing Miss Miller's greatest triumphs. In 1929, she was given the opportunity to preserve her performance in this oversized adaptation.The entire film was shot and released in 2-color Technicolor, and this process apparently had the by-product of enhancing the range of the sound.The film is undeniably dated. It lacks rhythm that later films would quickly master. What is thrilling and fascinating is to watch this great star, Marilyn Miller, in action. Her greatest asset was her dancing, though even that wobbly voice has its charms.The film is in woeful need of restoration. That said, it is pretty much all there. Provided the viewer is able to make the leap of faith in understanding that it a technological dinosaur, you can settle in and luxuriate in witnessing something like an authentic classic Ziegfeld show.