King Of Burlesque (1936)

• Director
  • Sidney Lanfield
• Writers
  • Gene Markey(screen play)
  • Harry Tugend(screen play)
  • James Seymour(adaptation)
• Stars
  • Warner Baxter
  • Alice Faye
  • Jack Oakie

  Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who helps make Baxter a success. His head turned by sudden fame, Baxter falls under the spell of a society woman (Mona Barrie) who has theatrical aspirations of her own. She marries Baxter, then convinces him to produce a string of "artistic" plays rather than his extravagant musical revues. The plays are flops, and the woman haughtily divorces Baxter. Faithful Alice Faye, who'd gone to London when her ex-beau was married, returns to the penniless Baxter. She and her burlesque buddies team up to pull Baxter out of his rut and put him on top again.