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Mary Eaton, the girl who played Polly Potter


She was so appealing in this, and had a great singing voice. But it seems her life went downhill. Check out her bio page:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0247858/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

Died at age 47, from alcoholism... 

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It's very sad, because, after the Marx Bros., she was the most appealing thing in the movie.
She was pretty, charming, and had a lovely singing voice.
I had read somewhere that Zeppo was the original choice as her love interest; I wish he was--Oscar Shaw was nothing but an untalented oaf.

BTW, her sister was Doris Eaton, the last of the Ziegfeld Girls, who lived to age 106.

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