1h 32min | Musical | 9 January 1945
Director: Victor Saville
Stars: Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman, Janet Blair, Marc Platt, Florence Bates.
Jack Cole ... choreographer
Val Raset ... choreographer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038178/
In the Tap! Appendix for Marc Platt, and he does tap a little. We get lots of dancing in this film, but not much tap.
Numbers (13 chapters, menu with images and only digits to label them):
- ch1. What Does an English Girl Think of a Yank?, Sung by Rita Hayworth (dubbed by Martha Mears), Danced by Rita Hayworth, Jack Cole and dance chorus. (I wouldn't recognize JC.)
- ch2. Largo al factotum from "The Barber of Seville", Danced to by Marc Platt flamenco-style; he dances to other things in this scene (audition), including a Hitler speech. One of the segments is jive, where he does the splits a couple of times. After his audition, we get a montage of his growing success, dancing with JB & RH.
- ch3. You Excite Me, Sung and Danced by Rita Hayworth (dubbed by Martha Mears)
- ch6. The Boy I Left Behind, Sung by Rita Hayworth (dubbed by Martha Mears) and Janet Blair
- ch7. Tonight and Every Night, Sung by Janet Blair
- ch9. Cry and You Cry Alone, Sung by Rita Hayworth (dubbed by Martha Mears), Danced by Rita Hayworth, Marc Platt and chorus
- ch10. Anywhere, also played on xylophone by Professor Lamberti with Rita Hayworth dancing in the background
- ch11. Anywhere, Sung by Janet Blair
- ch12. Tonight and Every Night, Sung by Rita Hayworth (dubbed by Martha Mears) in film's finale
Although I remembered the plot and knew the bad thing that would happen, it still got to me.
I don't like the love quadrangle, because I don't like Lee Bowman (in general). And for a while it looked like MP was leaning toward JB, but then he fell for RH, leaving JB unrequited. Very messy.
Columbia, dir. Saville; 7+
