The Goldwyn Follies

4.8
The Goldwyn Follies
Overview
Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person.
Reviews (2)
CyrusPK (Rated: 6)
There is a sense of both hesitancy and confidence in this strange work from Samuel Goldwyn.
The former comes through in the need to try and sell the idea of culture in the form of opera and ballet to his audience by having it seen and endorsed through the eyes of Miss Humanity, an honest rural wo...
CinemaSerf (Rated: 5)
Adolphe Menjou is producer "Oliver Merlin" who selects "Hazel Dawes" (Andrea Leeds) to be his modern day arbiter elgantiae - to keep him in touch with the mood of the ordinary person on the street. Good idea, in principle, but he doesn't particularly agree with her; nor does he really know how to im...
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