Betty Grable (Jane) is looking for a job as a chorus girl but accidently lands a job as an usherette when Lee Bowman hires her at a theatre run by Porter Hall (SJ). The theatre shows films and has a popular singer Charles 'Buddy' Rogers (Brad) who introduces each show with a song. Betty and Buddy meet and you can guess what happens. Betty ditches the usherette role and starts singing at the performances and marriage is in the air.
It's not an interesting storyline. It's not an interesting film. It's also got an annoying cast with too many comedy characters that aren't funny - here is a role call of them: publicity man Ned Sparks (Inky) whose deadpan deliveries only hit the mark and made me laugh on one occasion, Jim & Marian Jordan (Fibber & Molly) who play a couple holidaying with a caravan trailer and they did the opposite of humour called annoyance, a trio of idiots called Mumps, Bumps and Trumps who get too much screen time being unfunny delivering spoken word singing that isn't lyrically clever or interesting and certainly not tuneful, and what the hell is Rufe Davis (sound effects guy) doing? Dire!! Mary Livingstone (Maxine) is Betty's best pal and is yet another comedy character - she's not too bad but she's never really funny either.
As this is a musical, the actual music needs a mention. One word. Terrible. Completely forgetful songs and uninterestingly performed. There is also a lack of dance routines which is what I was looking out for.
The reason I have marked this film so high (a 3 out of 10) is because of Betty Grable and her only dance routine even though it is grainy due to the poor quality of the film. The other memorable sequence comes at the film's beginning with the marching usherettes as we see them rehearse a busby Berkely style formation. This film had so much potential but ended up a let-down.
It's not an interesting storyline. It's not an interesting film. It's also got an annoying cast with too many comedy characters that aren't funny - here is a role call of them: publicity man Ned Sparks (Inky) whose deadpan deliveries only hit the mark and made me laugh on one occasion, Jim & Marian Jordan (Fibber & Molly) who play a couple holidaying with a caravan trailer and they did the opposite of humour called annoyance, a trio of idiots called Mumps, Bumps and Trumps who get too much screen time being unfunny delivering spoken word singing that isn't lyrically clever or interesting and certainly not tuneful, and what the hell is Rufe Davis (sound effects guy) doing? Dire!! Mary Livingstone (Maxine) is Betty's best pal and is yet another comedy character - she's not too bad but she's never really funny either.
As this is a musical, the actual music needs a mention. One word. Terrible. Completely forgetful songs and uninterestingly performed. There is also a lack of dance routines which is what I was looking out for.
The reason I have marked this film so high (a 3 out of 10) is because of Betty Grable and her only dance routine even though it is grainy due to the poor quality of the film. The other memorable sequence comes at the film's beginning with the marching usherettes as we see them rehearse a busby Berkely style formation. This film had so much potential but ended up a let-down.