If you're looking for a mish-mosh you came to the right place. When this was released in 1941 - one year after the Broadway show opened - perhaps a couple of hundred people in England would have heard of Huey Pierce Long, the door-to-door pedlar who rose to become firstly the Governor of Louisiana and secondly State Senator - and was thought to be a serious contender for President when he was assassinated in 1935. When he became Governor Louisiana was the poorest State in the Union with virtually no decent highways, schools or hospitals. Long turned it around, provided all three but also made it one of the most graft-ridden States in the Union. The Broadway show satirized Long and Irving Berlin provided some tasty songs - Fools Fall In Love, It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow, Sex Marches On - none of which are sung in the movie though four other songs are. What remains is a bland toothless satire but in its favor it does give British show buffs a chance to see both Vera Zorina and Irene Bordoni.
Review of Louisiana Purchase
