This fluffy B musical has some great talents, but lacks the pizzazz that made many of the hour long Universal musicals so much fun. Gone are the Andrews Sisters and in is Frances Langford, one of the great singers of the 1930's and 40's, as charming and effervescent as ever. Robert Paige plays a songwriter who pretends to be a millionaire from Texas in order to charm Broadway leading lady Langford into singing his songs, all thanks to Walter Catlett, the show's producer, and funny man Leon Errol (badly wasted here), but of course everything comes out and Langford refuses to go one with the show. A search goes out to find her, and in just under an hour's running time, it is obvious where this is going to end.
Yep, even without the mention of a world war going on, the show utilizes a patriotic finale, like many other B musicals of the time that had no war theme up until then. A group of chorus girls are in Andrews Sisters style women's army uniforms and perform a rather mediocre salute to the boys fighting over there. It's only slightly amusing, and Langford's singing (the highlight of the film) is often truncated with songs that are either cut out in the middle (Paige "buying" out a theatrical performance and interrupting her number) or only a minute long. The comedy is forced, and the Broadway atmosphere unbelievable, with Catlett the most non-producer like of any Broadway producers I've ever seen on film.
Yep, even without the mention of a world war going on, the show utilizes a patriotic finale, like many other B musicals of the time that had no war theme up until then. A group of chorus girls are in Andrews Sisters style women's army uniforms and perform a rather mediocre salute to the boys fighting over there. It's only slightly amusing, and Langford's singing (the highlight of the film) is often truncated with songs that are either cut out in the middle (Paige "buying" out a theatrical performance and interrupting her number) or only a minute long. The comedy is forced, and the Broadway atmosphere unbelievable, with Catlett the most non-producer like of any Broadway producers I've ever seen on film.
