I'm a musical comedy fan, though God only knows why - the reason I say this is because I'm only 17. My friends and relatives sometimes worry about my weird taste in old movies like, for instance, this one. I found it to be very cute. Tyrone Power is particularly good, he reminds me a bit of Lee Tracy, his newspaper man performance ready to trick everyone into doing what he wants. The story itself is nothing extraordinary, but it's always cool to watch Hollywood making fun of itself - in this case, the whole Scarlet O'Hara research. A new best-seller has its rights sold off to a big studio who now needs to find someone talented enough to play the lead - something that, after a couple of years, seems to become rather impossible until the figure of Sonja Henie appears out of a Middle School and lands right into Hollywood. I won't bother much with the details, anyone with enough brains knows that Power and Henie will end up together anyways... Rudy Valley gets to sing some good Irving Berlin songs (one of my favorite songwriters). In conclusion if you are looking for mindless fun, a movie that will make you enjoy yourself and get to see some old ice-skating hat tricks the way only old Sonja could do, you are in for a treat.
Review of Second Fiddle
