7/10
mix of good (and not so....) entertainment from 1940s
2 February 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Star of the show dreams up a stunt to gain publicity for herself! Eleanor Powell is "Ginny", who finds a way to get attention, but her press agent (Eugene Palette) doesn't approve. SO many big names in here.. the awesome W.C. Fields, Sophie Tucker, Aubrey Smith, Cab Calloway, Woody Herman. Some silly bits, one after another. Paper-thin plot in a nonsense script. The wacky-ness moves right along, and we see every corny act in vaudeville history, as well as some good song and dance! Also a circus bear act about half way through. and the high-wire walker that walks a tight rope over some canyon. It ends... at some point. for some reason. Not much of a plot, but its fun to see some of these big acts from the 1940s. TERRIFIC piano duets by two players during the Cab Calloway segment, but the pianists are not named. Directed by Andrew Stone, who would win an Oscar for the "Julie" screenplay in the 1950s. We knew it wouldn't be for THIS film...
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