Puttin’ on the Ritz 1930

Harry Raymond and his loyal friend James ‘Jimmy’ Tierney work as song promoters for a music publisher, and they team up with showgirl Dolores Fenton and her friend Goldie Devere to develop an act. Harry pushes to release a song he’s written with Dolores, which irritates the boss and lands him his firing. Loyal Jim quits in solidarity. Harry and Jim then join forces with Dolores and Goldie to craft a stage act that could captivate audiences.

They become a Broadway sensation with their number With You. They fall in love and get engaged, but as his fame grows, success goes to Harry’s head. He spurns his old friends in favor of the social whirl of the upper crust, becomes drunk, and snubs Goldie and Jim at a Christmas party. Dolores leaves him. Harry consumes bad liquor and is struck blind. Jim stands by his old friend, but Harry makes him promise not to tell Dolores about his blindness.

Time passes, and Jim persuades him to accompany him to the opening of a new musical show starring Dolores. At the curtain call, the audience insists she sing the hit With You. Midway through the song she falters, and Harry joins in from the audience. He tries to leave quickly after, but Dolores follows, and they are reunited.