''Page Miss Glory'' is a 1935

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film starring

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, and

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. It was based on the play of the same name by Joseph Schrank and

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Plot

Country girl Loretta Dalrymple (

) arrives in New York City and gets a job as a chambermaid in a luxurious hotel, the same hotel in which con man "Click" Wiley (

) and his photographer partner Ed Olsen (

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) are three weeks in arrears. Desperate to avoid being evicted by the assistant manager, Mr. Yates (

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), Click has Ed make a composite photograph by combining the best features of several renowned Hollywood beauties and enters the resulting fake under the name "Dawn Glory" in a nationwide beauty contest for the $2500 prize. Dawn Glory wins. Bingo Nelson (

), a pilot famous for performing crazy stunts, immediately falls in love when he spots the photograph in his friend Click's suite. After heroically flying to Alaska through a blizzard to deliver serum for some sick children, he proposes to Dawn Glory on national radio. As a result, reporters clamor to interview the woman, putting Click in a tough spot. Slattery (

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) of the ''Express'' is particularly persistent, digging up Click's checkered past to try to blackmail him into giving him an exclusive interview. Finally, Click is about to admit the truth when Ed's girlfriend Gladys Russell (

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) discovers Loretta trying on a dress delivered for Miss Glory. Earlier in the day, Loretta had splurged and gotten her hair styled as in the photograph. Gladys and Ed pass off Loretta as Dawn. Soon, advertising endorsements and royalties make Click and Ed a lot of money. Simeon Hamburgher (

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), president of Nemo Yeast, the beauty contest's sponsor, hires Bingo to fly over the city and tout Miss Glory's endorsement of his product over a loudspeaker. His bitter rival, J. Horace Freischutz (

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), orders his assistant Joe Bonner (

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) to arrange a meeting somehow with Dawn, so he can try to persuade her to sign with him. Bonner pays thugs Petey (

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) and Blackie (

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) to kidnap her. After Petey learns that Dawn is really an impostor, he and his partner decide to blackmail Click instead. Click agrees to pay them off if they will kidnap Bingo, a persistent nuisance who keeps trying to talk to Dawn. Gladys, jealous of a possible rival for Ed's affections, suggests they take Dawn instead. Petey is dazzled by Dawn's beauty, so he does. However, Bingo tracks them down and rescues her. She agrees to marry him and announces it to everyone from the skies over New York.

Cast

as Loretta Dalrymple / "Dawn Glory" *

as Daniel "Click" Wiley *

as Bingo Nelson *

as Gladys Russell *

as Edward Olson *

as Slattery *

as Petey *

as Blackie (as Barton McLane) * Patsy Kelly as Betty, a chambermaid and Loretta's friend *

as Joe Bonner *

as J. Horace Freischutz *

as Simeon Hamburgher *

as Mr. Yates

Legacy

Warner Bros. followed the film in 1936 with the

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cartoon '' Page Miss Glory.'' The film's title song, written by Harry Warren and Al Dubin and performed in the movie by Dick Powell, features prominently in the cartoon. Though the cartoon, like the film, is set in a large hotel, the plot is completely different. The 1949 comedy movie ''

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'' is also about a "composite" beauty. Ronald Reagan plays a cheesecake artist who paints his greatest creation using 12 models who are unknown to each other. Then he stumbles across a woman (played by Virginia Mayo) who's the perfect likeness of the woman in the picture. In 2002, two separate films used premises from "Page Miss Glory".

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'', which tells the story of a man who makes a composite image of a gorgeous woman by combining the best features of several renowned Hollywood beauties - and is then faced with the challenge of producing the real woman; and

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,'' which tells the story of a luxury hotel maid who is mistaken for a wealthy hotel guest after seen wearing an article of clothing meant for someone else. John Hughes' original script title for ''Maid in Manhattan'' was "The Chambermaid."Chicago Breaking News "''Ferris Bueller'' director John Hughes dies," August 6, 200

/ref> None of these films credit Joseph Schrank, Phillip Dunning,

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or Robert Lord with the story.

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Page Miss Glory 1935 films American black-and-white films American films based on plays Films directed by Mervyn LeRoy 1935 romantic comedy films Warner Bros. films American romantic comedy films Films with screenplays by Robert Lord (screenwriter) 1930s English-language films 1930s American films