Sitting on the Moon was a shorter movie release from 1936 which starred Roger Pryor as composer Danny West, Grace Bradley as one time star Polly Blair, William Newell as Mike, and Pert Kelton as Mattie.
Actually, as I watched Sitting on the Moon, I was reminded of films like A Star is Born. That is because
the story is about a rising star and a declining composer. However, they really are not the same; it is just that there are certain story elements that easily take your mind to other related story plots.
The West character is a playboy, or perhaps a man who likes to hang around with groupies. He’s very reminiscent in ways of the John Norman Howard character in Streisand’s version of A Star is Born. In the first scene, he’s passed out along with some groupie, arriving home in the morning and having to fake his way through a meeting with producers.
That is where he meets Polly Blair, who apparently was once on the ...