This is a long short included on the Roberta DVD.

imdb explains:

Basically this is a commercial for Hollywood’s Lido Lounge and for MGM contract players. The Lido is a large watering hole; we visit one afternoon with an orchestra playing, all sorts of stars and would-be stars sitting at tables near the pool alongside paying customers, and bathing beauties parading and diving.

It’s weird that they’d spend Technicolor on something like this — in 1935. But perhaps it’s as much an ad for Technicolor as it for the Lido.

So we get brief clips of famous people sitting around… like Clark Gable (and that’s his wife).

There’s also musical/comedy bits, of course.

So how do you rate something like this? I mean, it a 20 minute ad. But it’s pleasant to watch, and there are some amusing bits? So… er…

Starlit Days at the Lido. Alexander Van Dorn. 1935. ⚁

Such American movie!

Oh, it’s… it’s… Juliette Lewis! Wow.

Oh, cops.

Hey! I was there this week! Coney Island! What a coinkidink.

Such 90s sex thriller.

See?

Sure, sure.

Well… I’m of two minds about this one. There’s a lot of actors that I like in this movie, and it looks pretty good, but for me it just didn’t work. It’s like it’s trying too hard at being This Kind Of Movie, and it feels like a pastiche that doesn’t quite work, which makes it hard to care about anything that happens.

So I was pretty bored throughout this movie. But I’m sure mileage will vary, and I can totally see people having this as their Favourite Movie Ever.

Romeo is Bleeding. Peter Medak. 1993. ⚁

Nice hat.

Mwah… this burg ain’t big enough for the both of us.

Mae West is so fun to watch. She co-wrote this movie with W. C. Fields, apparently, and the first half is a pure delight, and is LOL-out-loud funny.

Sure!

Heh heh.

Mwah!

Heh heh.

But… while the main plot is very funny, and the performances are hilarious, there’s just something about this movie that’s not firing on all cylinders. Especially the Fields scenes seem to drag on without much purpose, and the excessive nastiness towards his manservant is just offputting (and I think it’s meant to be funny).

Still, the scenes that work are hilarious, so I think I’m gonna go with:

My Little Chickadee. Edward F. Cline. 1940. ⚃