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It's an old fashioned sanitized version of the pre-code movie and it's a lot of fun. The technicolor is so beautiful it's a pleasure just looking @ it & it has some great songs. But the best song & best musical number is the now culturally inappropriate Pass That Peace Pipe. But both the choreography & performance are so good, so excellent I can view it as an example of artistic perfection. The great Joan McCracken was an immediate star on Broadway & a superb athlete & ballet dancer. I only wish she had made more musical movies but she did not like Hollywood so we are left with so little. But we have this musical moment & if you watch it, it's all you need to be convinced how brilliant she was.

I do not like this show mainly because Sudeikis is obnoxious. He is the most smarmy "comedian" to come out of SNL since Chevy Chase. I am also prejudiced against it because I hate sports themed movies and tv shows. Ted Lasso is apparently very popular & winning awards which is an example of the poor state of current tv quality. Sudeikis is supposed to be charming but he isn't. He hasn't the acting ability to override his innate arrogance & the show bores me. I'm happy for you if you like Ted Lasso. I don't. I hate it.

Overwrought. Overacted. Trashy. These are all compliments in my opinion & just the kind of description that draws me to a movie. I love when mature actresses are put into roles obviously meant for someone younger & yet, in countless other movies, we are forced to accept some old male actor making love to a girl 20 years younger w/ no questions asked. I don't have any problem with Stanwyck's age of 45 but her having a baby, though not be impossible, may have been a little unusual & honestly given a more surprise reaction from others. I love older actresses still getting lead actress work, overacting, camping it up. I think Stanwyck was one of our greatest completely unique actresses. She's great in this. So is Monroe. So is Ryan. Paul Douglas is his usual shlub character. The purple dialogue adds to the consistent entertainment value & the burning desire bubbling under the surface until it explodes is hilarious. The happy ending is ridiculous & I don't believe it for a moment. The woman is a sex crazed tramp. But who would want overweight smelly fisherman Douglas over Robert Ryan anyway? I also love the plot gimmick of the baby. No one is ever taking care of it. I imagine it lying in a crib wearing a dirty diaper for days.