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Hitting a New High

Hitting a New High

5,5 /10 (11 Votes)
1937 EN 85 min

Overview

A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges her Manhattan debut by way of Africa.

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Release date

24/12/1937

Votes

11

Popularity

0.8

Thrill to the Voice that makes Swing Song Sounds..Hear Her Trilling Those Golden Arias!

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

85 min

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CinemaSerf

2025-08-22

⭐ 6

For a brief while, I thought the MGM lion had strayed onto set and was going to shorten this feature for us, but he merely yawned and went back to sleep. Now that is quite an accomplishment as for much of this film we are treated to the pizzicato dulcets of aspiring opera singer “Suzette” (Lily Ponsj. Luckily for her, she is “discovered” by the very aptly named theatrical agent “Corny” (Jack Oakie) who is so determined to get her onto the stage that he dons his khaki and heads to the perilous depths of the African jungle - which, to be fair, does actually look more like a jungle than a few pot…

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