Two Girls On Broadway (1940)

Two dancing sisters (Lana Turner, Joan Blondell) head to Broadway where they hope to break into show business. But after they audition, it turns out a nightclub owner (Richard Lane) is only interested in the younger sister (Turner) and offers the older sister (Blondell)  a job as a cigarette girl. A remake of THE BROADWAY MELODY and directed by S. Sylvan Simon (THE FULLER BRUSH MAN). I was going to call the film a mediocrity but honestly, it's even less than that. This was Joan Blondell's first film under her new MGM contract and if you hadn't seen her work at Warners, you'd have no idea how talented she really was based what's on view here. MGM still didn't know what to do with Turner. Who would cast Turner as a wide eyed innocent? They figured it out the next year with ZIEGFELD GIRL (1941) and Turner reigned at MGM for over 15 years as their biggest female star. As the man both sisters are in love with, George Murphy barks his lines in a one note performance. Still, the picture was a modest hit and turned a profit for MGM. With Kent Taylor and Wallace Ford.