1h 38min | Comedy, Musical | 5 February 1958 | Color, WS
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Jane Powell, Cliff Robertson, Keith Andes, Kaye Ballard, Tommy Noonan, Una Merkel.
Gower Champion ... choreographer
Per IMDb trivia: "The was the last movie to be shot at the RKO Hollywood studio at 780 Gower Street. Filming took place between early September and early November 1956 and again during the week of January 8, 1957. After sitting on the shelf for over a year, Universal International picked up the distribution rights, and the feature finally went into wide release in Febbruary 1958 on a double bill with Day of the Badman (1958), a Universal International production starring Fred MacMurray. Jane Powell quipped in a 1987 "Films in Review" profile that Universal didn't release the film; they simply allowed it to "escape." Out of respect for RKO, who had not actually produced the film, but who had been its intended distributor, Universal left its original RKO logo intact on the beginning and end titles, and this is the way it's now seen on TCM."
7 songs in the Soundtracks. OK dancing on a couple of them.
This is pure fluff. JP accepts a proposal from her long-term beau on night 1. Next day she jumps off the ferry to meet the launch just departed from a big yacht. That night she accepts a 2nd proposal from the fellow who fished her out of the bay, a diesel mechanic. The next night, she's on a date with the mechanic and they fish the millionaire out of the bay. Then she has a date with him, and accepts her 3rd proposal. When he brings her home, fiances 1 & 2 are waiting. The next morning all 3 arrive for breakfast & her decision. She chooses her ideal, the millionaire. They all go to his yacht to see her off, and she kisses each, only to find that the mechanic is the only one with whom she feels like she floats on pink clouds. Look at the casting: Cliff Robertson, Keith Andes, Tommy Noonan; I'll give you 1 guess who the mechanic is.
Stanley Rubin Prod., distr. Universal (RKO), dir. Leisen; 6
