The Girl from Calgary

The Girl from Calgary
The Girl from Calgary
	Monogram Studios
Release date	October 24, 1932;
Running time	64 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Girl from Calgary is a 1932 American

musical comedy film directed by Phil Whitman, and starring Fifi D'Orsay and Paul Kelly.^[1]

Plot summary

A French-Canadian girl is a champion bronc rider and is also a

nightclub singer

. An ambitious young man sees her act one night and is struck by her talent, realizing that she is good enough to become a Broadway star.

He convinces her to accompany him to New York, where she indeed does become a Broadway star. However, the young man finds himself being squeezed out by greedy Broadway producers who see the talented young girl as their own personal gold mine.

Cast

Fifi D'Orsay as Fifi Follette
Paul Kelly as Larry Boyd
Robert Warwick as Bill Webster
Edwin Maxwell as Earl Darrell
Astrid Allwyn as Mazie Williams
Edward Fetherston as Monte Cooper
Adrienne Dore as Lulu, Darrell's secretary (uncredited)

Production background

The first reel, with an elaborate musical number, is taken from The Great Gabbo (1929) which had at least one sequence filmed in Multicolor.
When originally released, the first reel of The Girl From Calgary, approximately seven minutes including the title credits, was in 2-strip Magnacolor. Reviewers at the time commented on the poor quality of the color, registration problems, and lack of focus. In surviving prints, this sequence is in black-and-white, with a replaced title card that includes a 1951 copyright statement.