This is one of those cookie cutter 'luxury liner' musicals that enjoyed a vogue in late forties Hollywood - and even well into the fifties they were still turning out things like 'The French Line'. It's no better and certainly no worse than any of them and Warners didn't stint on casting, throwing in a string of 'reliables' like Eric Blore, Franklin Pangborn, late of RKO and Paramount respectively and from their own roster Jack Carson, Oscar Levant and S.Z. 'Cuddles' Zackall. All-rounder Michael Curtiz was on bullhorn and peripatetic - RKO (Step Lively), MGM (Anchors Aweigh, It Happened In Brooklyn) tunesmiths Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn supplied the dots and the lyrics. Add ex-band (Les Brown) singer Doris Day in her first At Bat and what's not to like. An ideal time-passer for a wet Saturday afternoon.
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