VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Harry Warren: America's Foremost Composer" is an American 9-minute live action music short film from 1933, so this one is approaching its 85th anniversary. So old. The title already gives away the name of one protagonist and Harry Warren appears in here around the age of 40 (before his ongoing Oscar (win and nomination) glory) and he brought some guests for this black-and-white sound film. It runs for under 10 minutes overall and there was one voice that really reminded me of a voice from cartoons. Anyway, the music as a whole did not impress or entertain me a great deal here and as this component is not just key here, but really the very core and only core actually at the film's center, I must say for me personally it is a negative deal breaker. It's a thumbs-down for me here. Not recommended.

bkoganbing This pleasant short subject has Harry Warren playing some of his musical hits. As hits were coming to him for over 30 years and he started getting big time royalties in the middle 20s, a short subject here only covers a small portion of his career. The setting is a swank party where the guests ask Warren to perform some of his hits. After that we get medley of songs, sung and danced to by the various guests. The Shadow Waltz from Goldiggers of 1933 was nicely staged with couples dancing in silhouette.The finale starts with Warren playing the title song from 42nd Street and then it dissolves to the famous Busby Berkeley dance number from the film. As both 42nd Street and Goldiggers of 1933 were still playing this film was quite a plug for both.Warren won three Oscars for Best Song in his career and not one of them had been composed yet. He's overlooked many times because he eschewed Broadway for Hollywood. But I daresay his melodies will live on and on longer than some of his contemporaries precisely because we can see the performances over and over.Salvatore Anthony Guaragna from Brooklyn, aka Harry Warren you were one of the greatest.

kidboots A short subject featuring Harry Warren at the piano and other performers singing and dancing to a medley of his songs. A word of warning - the short I saw was obviously cut and Hal LeRoy (even though he was listed in the credits as "LeRoy") was not featured in the "Young and Healthy" number. There was also some dancing featured in "Shadow Waltz" but again he was not among the dancers.Okay, Harry Warren may not have been "America's Foremost Composer" but he was certainly among them and oh those songs. "The Shadow Waltz", "Young and Healthy", "Ooh That Kiss", "42nd Street", "Have a Little Faith in Me", "Crying for the Carolines", "Would You Like To Take a Walk" and "Cheerful Little Earful" are his songs featured in the short.

wmorrow59 Although he isn't as well remembered as contemporaries Irving Berlin or Cole Porter, songwriter Harry Warren has many great standards to his credit: "Shuffle Off to Buffalo," "Jeepers Creepers," "We're in the Money," "I Only Have Eyes for You," and numerous others. Fans of Busby Berkeley's musicals made for Warner Brothers in the '30s will certainly remember Warren's songs, and so will baby boomers who grew up watching the Warner Studio's Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, for it was those cartoons that really kept the songs alive and passed them along to the next generation and beyond.This little musical short presents Harry Warren himself, a rather modest-looking gentleman in a tux seated at a piano in a swanky Art Deco apartment, surrounded by elegantly dressed folk sipping cocktails. When someone praises Harry and calls for a speech, he demurs bashfully and insists [with genuine, non-actorly awkwardness] that he's no good at making speeches, and proceeds to play his songs instead. And that's what we're here for: one great song after another, a couple of which have been given comic, altered lyrics for the occasion, usually harping on how much money Harry has made from his hits (which suggests a touch of envy and anxiety in the depths of the Depression). A couple of numbers are performed by Margie Hines, a Betty Boop sound-alike who later supplied the voice for Olive Oyl when Mae Questel was otherwise engaged.These Vitaphone shorts provided exposure for studio contract artists and performers, and also gave the technicians extra work and a chance to experiment: during the rendition of "Shadow Waltz" there's artsy lighting with silhouettes and such. This film is a pleasant little treat for fans of '30s musicals, but it's also an interesting example of the way the studios promoted their wares at the time, for the short ends with an excerpt from their current big release, 42ND STREET, which of course featured several of Warren's best known songs. In a sense this short film (intriguingly identified as a "Vitaphone Pepper Pot" in the closing credits) served as a trailer for the main event.