Monday, February 26, 2018

And the Angels Sing (1944), 6-

The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy (Dorothy Lamour), Bobby (Betty Hutton), Josie (Diana Lynn) and Patti (Mimi Chandler), aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc... 
1h 36min | Comedy, Music, Romance | 25 April 1944
Director: George Marshall
Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Fred MacMurray, Betty Hutton, Eddie Foy Jr.
Daniel Dare ... choreographer (as Danny Dare)

watched online; decent print for small screen.

Biggest war reference: victory gardens.

Pleasant fluff, definitely softened by my affection for FM, and not overwhelmed by BH. Somehow FM sustains 'cute' when he goes through the motions of a song&dance with EF.

BH and Frank Faylen do some silly over-energetic stuff on the dance floor among lots of extras. That and the FM/EF dance mentioned above are about all the dance there is. Maybe also the 'choreographing' of the quartet (below) while singing fell to DD?

The best part of this is how well the 4 women's voices sound together. Mimi Chandler only made 1 other film, so I would imagine she did her own singing. Diana Lynn has a dubber listed in the Soundtracks. We get at least 2 songs by this quartet.

Paramount, dir. Marshall; 6-