Doris Day had fourteen films under her belt when she made this one, including three dramatic roles, and was still a major star so why Warners couldn't scare up a better leading man for her than Robert Cummings is a mystery. Cummings had paid his dues in things like King's Row and Dial M For Murder and was an accomplished leading man but by no stretch of the imagination was he a musical comedy leading man. There was absolutely no chemistry between him and Day and as it happened Phil Silvers could have played the leading role twice as well as Cummings. It's one of those films that on paper can't miss; a great cast - Silvers, Eddie Foy, Nancy Walker, Marcel Dalio - eight tuneful songs by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster (who had served Day excellently on Calamity Jane the previous year) which were effective on screen but had no life in the jukes, so that the sum of its parts is all it really is.
Review of Lucky Me
