] In fact, Jolson""s next part-talkie follow-up film, Warners"" and director Lloyd Bacon""sThe Singing Fool (1928), was an even greater hit and a superior film.In this first segment, the group was starting their momentous journey.The film received three Academy Award nominations for Best Visual Effects, Best Production Design, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling, with no wins.Through the revolving doors strutted the attractive, beautiful young stenographer Miss Flaemmchen (Joan Crawford), a typical ambitious working girl who ascended in one of the elevators to Preysing""s hotel room on the 6th floor - she shared the lift with Pimenov, Kringelein, and the Baron.But there will be dark days ahead of us too.There will be days where you feel all alone.And that""s when hope is needed most.No matter how buried it gets, or how lost you feel, you must promise me that you will hold on to hope.