Earl Carroll Vanities (1945)

Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeldlike entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies Carrolls annual Vanities provided story material for three Hollywood films Murder at the Vanities 34 A Night at Earl Carrolls 40 and Earl Carroll Vanities 45 This last film was produced by Republic Pictures a breadandbutter studio specializing in Westerns and serials Republic had made musicals before but few of them were expensive enough to allow for lavish production numbers Earl Carroll Vanities is likewise rather threadbare though some of the individual musical highlights arent bad The plot such as it is concerns financially strapped nightclub owner Eve Arden who finagles Earl Carroll into staging one of his revues at her club