FASHIONS OF 1934

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025101/

A shockingly glamorous Bette Davis plays a stylish second banana to con man William Powell and sidekick Jimmy McHugh in this caper picture with a backstage musical tacked onto the second half. The three are working a successful high fashion bootlegging scam when they’re discovered and run out of NYC. They go to Paris and continue, meeting Hugh Herbert who is an ostrich feather magnate, and they produce a show starring Powell’s ex-girlfriend who is currently the lover of Paris’ most popular designer.

Orry Kelly designed the magnificent gowns and there is enough bias-cut satin to reach from here to the moon if stretched end to end. There is a completely over the top production number from Busby Berkeley, with the famous image of half-naked women as harps.