Bright Lights

Bright Lights (1930) is an American musical comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor and released by Warner Brothers late in 1930. However, Warners quickly withdrew the film when the studio realized that the public had grown weary of musicals. Warners believed that this attitude would only last for a few months, but, when the public proved obstinate, they reluctantly re-released the film early in 1931 after making a few cuts to it. A successful actress (Dorothy Mackaill) is about to marry a rich man instead of the man (Frank Fay, another actor who is a close friend of hers) she really loves. Only a black-and-white copy of the cut print released in the United States in 1931 (with some of the musical numbers cut) seems to have...