| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Dance Direction Busby Berkeley For "Love and War". |
Warner Bros.
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Bros.)
Dick Powell, and his moustache, is the world's worst life insurance salesman. He meets pretty Joan Blondell at a convention, gets her a job in his office and they fall in love. He somehow manages to land the biggest policy in the company's history, the 59-year-old owner of a failing theater. Powell and friends scrape together enough money to put on one more show to save it. However, they are up against two men who want it to fail, and the old man to die, to collect on the insurance. It all leads to another big, overblown Busby Berkeley production number. No better or worse than others in the series, though the Busby number seems to be lacking its usual budget.
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