Career Girl

Frances Langford tries to makea hit on Broadway, but it hits back. She moves into a girl's boarding house, filled with other longtime hopefuls. When they find out that she can sing like Frances Langford, they try to help her out, but producers leave during her auditions. Iris Adrian comes up with the brainstorm of incorporating her: $25 a week and free housing and they look to make a killing.

It's an okay PRC musical. Miss Langford sings five songs, and there are occasional bouts of tap-dancing, along with the usual romantic comedy plot. Despite her obvious talent and fresh-faced beauty, Miss Langford never became a movie star. Singing on Bob Hope's radio show, bickering with Don Ameche, selling a lot of records, starring in PRC musicals and appearing occasionally in an A picture as a specialty were the limits. It was a good career, far beyond what most Americans of the era could attain, but the peculiarities of the movie business never gave her the final push over the top to true stardom.