Hitting a New High

  • Comedy
  • Music
  • Romance
12/24/1937
85

Thrill to the Voice that makes Swing Song Sounds..Hear Her Trilling Those Golden Arias!

A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges her Manhattan debut by way of Africa.

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  • Geronimo1967

    For a brief while, I thought the MGM lion had strayed onto set and was going to shorten this feature for us, but he merely yawned and went back to sleep. Now that is quite an accomplishment as for much of this film we are treated to the pizzicato dulcets of aspiring opera singer Suzette (Lily Ponsj. Luckily for her, she is discovered by the very aptly named theatrical agent Corny (Jack Oakie) who is so determined to get her onto the stage that he dons his khaki and heads to the perilous depths of the African jungle - which, to be fair, does actually look more like a jungle than a few potted plants on a sound stage. Why? Well he and his nice but dim pal Lucius (Edward Everett Horton) conclude that Joe Public might be more engaged with their ...

    August 22, 2025

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