Diagonaldi Very well executed

TeenzTen An action-packed slog

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Tad Pole . . . then it must be true. I recently saw a snippet of an one of Ms. Mazetta's interviews on TCM or someplace similar, in which she said she'd totally "forgotten" recording this Vitaphone short (#809) for Warner Brothers (in 1929), and was "blown away" by how "good" a singer she was as a child when billed here as BABY ROSE MARIE THE CHILD WONDER. I'm sure there's a Shirley Temple fan out in the wilderness someone who would carp that Ms. Temple could dance and act as well as sing (some renegade might even claim Shirley was CUTER and sang BETTER), but let's look at the objective, quantifiable facts: Rose Marie has 74 acting credits, and Shirley has just 61 (about 20% FEWER). Furthermore, IMDb reveals Rose Marie is important enough to appear as herself on 89 segments of shows and documentaries of sufficient significance to be archived in their annals, while Shirley is ONLY ONE\THIRD as relevant to entertainment history as of today, with just 30 such credits as herself. The clincher is this widely-held notion that Shirley couldn't hack it in Hollywood when she left her teen years (requiring a taxpayer-subsidized government job apparently awarded to her through the pity of one of her die-hard fans who was a D.C. muckety-muck), while Rose Marie has been blessed with enough talent to have had an 80-year-long career supporting herself via show business WITHOUT REACHING INTO UNCLE SAM'S POCKET. How'd you like them apples, Shirley?

tavm This is another of the Vitaphone musical shorts from the late 20s that's on The Jazz Singer DVD. This one stars a precocious child singer named Baby Rose Marie who, yes, later removed the "Baby" from her name when she grew up and played Sally Rogers on "The Dick Van Dyke Show". Here, she has bobbed dark hair which was fashionable at the time and a voice that just won't quit that made her such a sensation at the time. In fact, it's amazing she didn't suffer the pressure another contemporary of hers, Judy Garland, eventually did. Also unlike Ms. Garland, Ms. Marie is still alive to tell the tale. So on that note, Baby Rose Marie the Child Wonder is definitely worth watching.

MartinHafer An early Vitaphone film, this Warner Brothers short apparently was one created using a very complicated system through which an accompanying record was synchronized with a movie camera. There were several serious setbacks for such a system (such as if a film skipped--it became out of sync for the rest of the film plus the records quickly wore out--and 20 showings was the normal life-span of the records) and even though it produced excellent sound, it was eventually replaced. The last of the Vitaphone films were made in 1930, then the studio switched to the standard sound-on-film system.Rose Marie (of "Dick Van Dyke Show" fame) is given the spotlight in this short. Watching her, it's hard to imagine that this poised professional was only 6 years-old at the time! Her parents must have kept her in a cage, beaten her and fed her mind-altering drugs to make her perform like this!! I am kidding of course, but she was a truly amazing child singer--as amazing as Shirley Temple but perhaps too early to catch on with the same intensity with the American public. With only a couple childhood screen credits to her name, she made a bigger splash on stage as well as her memorable TV roles as an adult.Now I would NOT want a steady diet of Baby Rose Marie's singing, she was wonderful in this short. Great singing and charming from start to finish--and better than just about all the adult acts I've seen in the Vitaphone shorts! Watch this one!

bkoganbing For those of you who only know Rose Marie as the eager comedy writer for the Dick Van Dyke Show in the Sixties, this film will be a revelation. Way back in the day of your parents and grandparents, little Baby Rose Marie had another career as a child performer. This Warner Brothers Vitagraph short is a tribute to that other career.The young lady does three songs, Who Wouldn't Be Jealous Of You, Don't Be Like That and Heigh Ho Everybody Heigh Ho. The last one was Rudy Vallee's theme song with his Connecticut Yankees and Vallee at this time was the most popular male singer in America. I looked for an imitation of his nasal style in Rose Marie, but she did in her own style. Just as well.Another treasure from the past preserved by Vitagraph.