If you have already seen Doris Day in her best musicals ("Calamity Jane," for example), you will find this bit of fluff rather unsatisfying, with its trivial plot and absence of memorable songs. The lack of chemistry between Day as aspiring star Candy Williams and Robert Cummings as her smitten pursuer is painfully evident, and I am not buying Cummings deception that he is auto mechanic Eddie Szczepanski. Take a look at his hands! Yet watching Day bounce through the opening number, "The Superstition Song" in the cutest 1950s dress you can imagine, plus the knowledge that this was the first musical filmed in cinemascope, make it worth watching. Doris Day does angry and hurt better than any actress ever has, and Nancy Walker is a stand-out in her way-too-limited role as part of Day's down-and-out dance troupe working as housekeepers in a Miami hotel. Best and silliest line: "Men who pick up rusty pins marry girls with double chins."
Review of Lucky Me
