1h 32min | Musical, Romance | 31 March 1945
Director: Arthur Lubin
Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Constance Moore, Jane Powell, Louise Beavers, Morton Gould, Arthur Treacher.
Ernst Matray ... choreographer
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037636/
Watched on AmazonPrime; also on a megapack. Bad fuzzy print.
This is JP's 2nd film. The next one, in '46, will be her 1st for MGM.
Per the Soundtracks page, 3 songs by JP, 1 by CM (s/b at least 2 by CM).
This story could be it's own sub-genre: sister/mother/guardian hides her burlesque job from innocent privately-schooled female minor. Then we move to sub-genre: ya gotta swing it! And finally burlesque star goes legit, PLUS minor child stars on B'way (they star together).
Not even the music makes this worthwhile, but it has a lot to overcome with the horrid print. (Next viewing: pull out the disc. Don't know if it's any better, though.)
Of the 40 Hunt Stromberg Productions, 32 were released 1921-25; here are the 8 talkies, most are familiar public domain titles, each has a now- (and probably then-)major star:
Lady of Burlesque (1943), Guest in the House (1944), Delightfully Dangerous (1945), The Strange Woman (1946), Young Widow (1946), Dishonored Lady (1947), Lured (1947), Too Late for Tears (1949)
Hunt Stromberg Productions, distr.. UA, dir. Lubin; 6-
