The Girl from Calgary explained

The Girl from Calgary
Director:	Phil Whitman
Producer:	I. E. Chadwick
Music:	Albert Hay Malotte
Cinematography:	Harry Neumann
Editing:	Carl Pierson
Studio:	Chadwick Pictures
Distributor:	Monogram Studios
Runtime:	64 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	English

The Girl from Calgary is a 1932 American pre-Code 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.

See also

• List of early color feature films

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Girl from Calgary. afi.com. 2024-02-11.