In Hitting a New High, one of Raoul Walsh’s few weak films, Lily Pons plays a nighclub singer who wants to be an opera singer. To that extent, she is sent by her agent (Jack Oakie) to pursue a rich opera lover (Edward Everett Horton), who is in Africa on Safari.
Dressing up as Ooga-Hunga (the Bad Girl), she impresses him with her voice and lands a contract with the Metropoloitan Opera.
Despie ambition and effort, Lily Pons never became a successful screen star.
Oscar Nominations: 1
Sound Recording: John Aalberg
Oscar Context
The Sound Oscar went to Thomas Moulton for “The Hurricane.”
