Bright, sprightly musical comedy bout a bellhop's (Robt. Walker) flirtation with a princess (Hedy Lamar) in the Grand Hotel where he works, while his crippled girlfriend (June Allyson} stays cooped up, miserable, at home. Walker had quite the career as a charming comedic leading man till his wife Jennifer Jones ran off with David O Selznick and he drowned himself to death in drink and drugs. Miss Lamar radiates her usual unearthly beauty, and admirably plays an innocent from a let-em-eat-cake world, charmed and seduced by Walker's working-class warmth. Miss Allyson is in a real downer of a role, trapped in her chair, painting endless Santa Claus dolls (!) while the rest frolic, but her situation does afford a dreamy over-produced dream sequence aria and ballet in which a frog turns into her prince charming (Walker). Rags Ragland also has a fun role as a hopelessly misspoken lug with a heart of gold, and Agnes Moorehead plays the royal aunt, desperately trying to uphold standards, appalled by such dalliance between the princess and a pauper.
Eventually Bellboy breaks free of his thrall to the benignly beguiling princess, comes back to his senses and his crippled love, by which miracle she is cured, and they all live happily ever after.
Eventually Bellboy breaks free of his thrall to the benignly beguiling princess, comes back to his senses and his crippled love, by which miracle she is cured, and they all live happily ever after.