Sweet Adeline

While the Spanish-American War rages, aspiring composer Sid Barnett (Donald Woods) is in love with beer garden singer Adeline Schmidt (Irene Dunne). Her father owns the place and prefers war hero Major Day for her. Adeline's sister Nellie runs away to New York City to be an actress with Adeline and Day in pursuit. Meanwhile, Sid's operetta is set to open on Broadway. Sid wants to replace lead singer Elysia with reluctant Adeline. Day is eager to pay for the move.

The music style is far from my taste, but that's not the movie's fault. The meandering story however is its fault. Most of all, I don't like Sid. He's not attentive to Adeline. She is besides herself looking for Nellie. His first instinct should be soothing her worries. Instead, his first instinct is to get her into his show. They often fight and the main reason is usually him not really listening. He just needs to listen to her. He's a child. The whole espionage thing is coming out of left field and I don't know. Quite frankly, I'm fine with Adeline going with Day until he makes that big turn. Of course, Sid is better by comparison, but that bar is very low.