Tanned Legs (1929)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Writer:

Thomas J. Geraghty (adaptation)

Release Date:

10 November 1929 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Musical

Tagline:

A MARSHALL NEILAN PRODUCTION

Plot:

Peggy (June Clyde) and Bill (Arthur Lake) are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put...

Plot Keywords:

Letter | Flapper | Reputation | Marriage | Rehearsal

Cast

Arthur Lake	...	Bill
June Clyde	...	Peggy Reynolds
Dorothy Revier	...	Mrs. Lyons-King
Ann Pennington	...	Tootie
Albert Gran	...	Mr. Reynolds
Allen Kearns	...	Roger Fleming
Sally Blane	...	Janet Reynolds
Edmund Burns	...	Clinton Darrow
Lincoln Stedman	...	Pudgy
Nella Walker	...	Mrs. Sophie Reynolds
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Johnny Johnson	...	Himself
Johnny Johnson's Orchestra	...	Themselves

Runtime:

USA:71 min | 66 min (TCM print)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.20 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Photophone System)

Certification:

USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:TV-G (TV rating)

Filming Locations:

Laguna Beach, California, USA

Company:

RKO Radio Pictures

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: In the scene after the bridge game, when the girls run onto the beach in long shot, the microphone is seen coming down over the two girls speaking. It's a flash of a couple of seconds, but quite visible.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003) (V)

Soundtrack:

Come in the Water, the Water Is Fine

Legs Up

The further back you go, the earlier in the evolutionary chain of cinema.

Even if the movie is uninteresting in a conventional sense, it has interest. Each of these early movies — and there weren't that many — was a firework shot into a sky, defining it.

This one is a rather crude imposition of a show onto several slightly related stories of romantic situations, and some sexual intrigue.

The show has the legs of the title rather overtly displayed in an obvious attempt to add spice to the stiff staging of the romantic episodes. Some of these involve the participants bursting into song, so its a strange amalgam of a musical on the story and one in the story. The stories are trite, as one would expect, but the women in the stories, even the vamps, are amazingly prim, especially when compared to the show girls.

These show girls, by the way, were selected for a different body type than usual for the period and more in line with modern trends: low body fat, muscle tone. As much is made of the Florida locale, that must have applied.

Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.