Description

Glorifying the American Girl is a 1929 musical film comedy film produced by Florenz Ziegfeld that highlights Ziegfeld Follies performers. The last third of the film (which was filmed in early Technicolor) is basically a Follies production, with cameo appearances by Rudy Vallee, Helen Morgan, and Eddie Cantor.
The script for the film was written by J.P. McEvoy and Millard Webb and directed by John W. Harkrider and Millard Webb. The songs were written by Irving Berlin, Walter Donaldson, Rudolf Friml, James E. Hanley, Larry Spier and Dave Stamper. The film is in the public domain, and many prints exhibited on television are in black-and-white only, and do not include pre-Motion Picture Production Code material, such as nudity.

Cast

• Mary Eaton as Gloria Hughes
• Dan Healy as Danny Miller
• Kaye Renard as Mooney
• Edward Crandall as Buddy Moore
• Gloria Shea as Barbara
• Sarah Edwards as Mrs. Hughes

Cameo appearances

• Noah Beery
• Irving Berlin
• Norman Brokenshire
• Billie Burke
• Eddie Cantor
• Desha Delteil
• Charles B. Dillingham
• Texas Guinan
• Otto Kahn
• Nancy Kelly
• Ring Lardner
• Bull Montana
• Helen Morgan
• Tony Sansone
• Louis Sorin
• Rudy Vallee
• Jimmy Walker
• Johnny Weissmuller
• Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
• Adolph Zukor
• Lew Hearn