You're A Sweetheart (Universal) is a sorry reversion to the type of cinemusical that cluttered up the primeval age of sound. Dwarfed by gigantically phony settings, actors who seem like puppety moppets make themselves ridiculous by chirping like birds in feathered finery, by performing unlovely routines in ballet groups. Songstress Alice Faye. borrowed from Twentieth Century-Fox for this howdydo, almost succeeds in putting over the title song and one called My Fine Feathered Friend in spite of directing that dotes on facial closeups. What little plot there is burdens Miss Faye with just...
Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 3, 1938
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