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Mitchell Leisen’s
ARTISTS AND MODELS ABROAD
U.S. 1938
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Starring Jack Benny, Joan Bennett, Mary Boland, The Yacht Club Boys
Art Direction by Hans Drier, Ernst Fegté
Approx. 90 min. 35mm.
“You’re broke, you dope!” Bored oil tycoon’s daughter Joan Bennett decides to slum it in Paris with Jack Benny’s stranded theatre troupe, in an extravagant musical-comedy given the High Moderne treatment by director/designer Leisen, with backgrounds shot at the 1937 Paris Exposition.
Reviews
“Breezy, entertaining froth. The Yacht Club Boys are incredible.”
– Leonard Maltin