*George White's Scandals (1934) Rudy Vallee and 50 similar items

Vintage original 8 x 10 in. US single-weight glossy keybook photograph from the 1930s musical, GEORGE WHITE'S SCANDALS, released in 1934 by the Fox Film Corporation and directed by Thornton Freeland, Harry Lachman, and George White. The image depicts cast members Rudy Vallee and Alice Faye "...in Hollywood for the first motion picture edition of the famed George White's "Scandals" in which they play the two starring roles are seen here on the set rehearsing a number." (as per the printed caption on the bottom of the verso. It is in very fine- condition. Opening with a credit line that reads "Entire production conceived, created and directed by George White," the film evolves where the only plot line is a thin backstage romance between Jimmy Martin and Kitty Donnelly in and around a dozen or more sketches, revues, black-outs and singing and dancing turns. Made before the birth of the production code, reviewers of the day found much to object about in the implications of Alice Faye's "Nasty Man" song with the Meglin Kiddies, and the dog action in the "Your Dog Loves My Dog" number by Vallee, Faye, Jimmy Durante and Dixie Dunbar. The geometric dance arrangements used in the Vallee, Durante and Cliff Edwards "Every Day Is Father's Day" was not cause for Busby Berkeley to lose any sleep.