Glorifying the American Girl

Glorifying the American Girl
Directed by	John W. Harkrider Millard Webb
Written by	J.P. McEvoy (story) Millard Webb
Produced by	Florenz Ziegfeld
Starring	Mary Eaton Dan Healy
Cinematography	George J. Folsey (Technicolor)
Music by	Irving Berlin Walter Donaldson Rudolf Friml James E. Hanley
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	December 7, 1929 (1929-12-07)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Glorifying the American Girl is a 1929 American pre-Code musical comedy film produced by Florenz Ziegfeld that highlights Ziegfeld Follies performers. The last third of the film, which was filmed in early Technicolor, is basically a Follies production, with appearances by Rudy Vallee, Helen Morgan, and Eddie Cantor.

Rex Beach was paid $35,000 for the original story.^[1][2]

The script for the film was written by J.P. McEvoy and Millard Webb and directed by John W. Harkrider and Millard Webb. The songs were written by Irving Berlin, Walter Donaldson, Rudolf Friml, James E. Hanley, Larry Spier and Dave Stamper. The film is in the public domain, and many prints exhibited on television are in black-and-white only, and do not include pre-Code material, such as nudity.^{[citation needed]}