Miss Lonely Hearts (1937) Poster

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5/10
Notice The Men Don't Do Anything
boblipton26 June 2022
It's another dull evening at the Lonely Hearts Club, a place where shy young men are supposed to meet shy young women. Only, of course, the men talk to men and the women complain. So Harriet Hutchins livens things up by having the women perform: an acrobatic trio, two dance numbers, and she sings a silly hot jazz number.

It's one of those shorts that was meant to replace the live acts at the movie theater, from back in the day when they would have some performers, or the vaudeville house would run movies between the shows. By this time, it wasn't usually enough to just have the acts. You had to have them in some sort of framework, and that's the basis of this one-reel movie.
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3/10
Mostly an excuse to show a variety of acts....most of which aren't particularly good!
planktonrules27 June 2022
There isn't much plot to "Miss Lonely Hearts" and the film is mostly an excuse to show a variety of third-rate acts. The plot supposedly is that a lonely hearts cub (a place for men and women to meet and, hopefully, hit it off) is having trouble because the men and women aren't talking to each other. So, they assume that the best way to get the men interested is to put on a female talent show....though the acts they features should have turned the men away in droves. You have a group of acrobats, a rather double-jointed dancer, a scat singer (who is VERY annoying) and a ballerina do their stuff and the males in the film all act as if these women are alluring and wonderful! In other words, they ACT! Overall, a not very good short film that leaves you wondering why they made it in the first place!
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