Movies - May 21

On the Avenue (1937) Watched with Donna. It's pretty tough to find anything that can follow the amazing opening number, with Alice Faye in what appears to be an astounding BLACK RUBBER DRESS!!!! but the Irving Berlin tunes, splendid gowns, and gigantic moving sets are excellent all the way through. The trivial plot could be sleep-walked through even then, and the Ritz Bros antics usually irritate rather than amuse, but I find anything sung by Faye or Dick Powell highly listenable. Proceedings are enlivened by numerous characters including my birthday twin Sig Rumann as, of all things, a professor of the trapeze. 7/10