#016: The Florodora Girl
THE FLORODORA GIRL Release Date May 31, 1930 History Florodora opened on the stage in London in 1899 and moved to New York in 1900, becoming one of the first successful musical comedies of the 20th Century, having a run of 552 performances. Its popularity spawned three Broadway revivals and a West End revival before 1920, but no film adaptations. This isn't surprising as many musicals from this time would not get film adaptations and when they did were heavily revised to a plot and score unrecognizable from the original. The closest that Florodora ever came to a film version was the 1930 film Florodora Girl . Directed by Harry Beaument and starring Marion Davies and Lawrence Gray, the film is about a chorus girl in the Broadway production of Florodora during its original run, and the adventures she ensues. Davies also produced the film without credit, as she had with seven films prior (including the sound version of Marianne, previously reviewed on this blog). To crea...