Ingeniously structured as a double feature, Movie Movie gleefully satirizes two 1930s genre mainstays – Busby Berkeley style kinetic musicals and heart-wrenching hard luck weepies. Written by Larry Gelbart, the two films – along with the faux Wings trailer that separates them – simultaneously celebrate and subvert the classical Hollywood movie clichés, from the tough but loving coach to the hardboiled dialogue delivered in period slang, that have operated as shorthand for savvy movie audiences since the Depression. With the delightful Baxter’s Beauties of 1932, Donen returns to the backstage musical format he parodied so successfully in Singin’ in the Rain, with equally entertaining results.