Girl Crazy 1932
Lon Chaney Jnr plays an (Uncredited) Chorus Dancer.
Plot Summary of Girl Crazy 1932.
New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being the Sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides to open a dude ranch there. He asks his friend Slick, a professional gambler and his wife Kitty, to help him. Slick decides to go there in a cab, driven by shy Jimmy. Jimmy's younger sister Tessie also travels there.
There Danny has fallen in love with Molly, but troubles arise for him when the local heavy decides that he does'nt like the ranch and announces running for Sheriff. Danny and Slick got the idea that Jimmy would be the ideal candidate, especially because of the fact that the heavy has announced he would kill another sheriff. With some help Jimmy is elected, but Molly leaves Danny with a New York shyster for Mexico. Mitzi, Danny, Kitty, Patsy - Jimmy's sweetheart as well as Jimmy and Slick follow her to win her heart back for Danny, but they are followed by the local heavey and his friend.
Summary by Stephen Eichenberg.
Leonard Maltin Summary 1998 (From Maltin's "Movie and Video Guide)
First screen version of the Gershwin musical comedy is a strange hybrid, neither a faithful rendition of the show nor a really good Wheeler and Woolsey vehicle. But it's not bad, with Wheeler and Woosley as city slickers out West, clashing with Arizona heavy Fields. Best Song, "You've got What Gets Me," was written for the film. Perennial Marx Brothers foil Margaret Dumont and Lon Chaney Jnr both have uncredited roles. Remade in 1943
Maltin gives it 2 1/2 Stars.