(73 min) Released 1938-06-03
Director: Allan Dwan
Stars: Don Ameche, Simone Simon, Robert Young.
Nick Castle ... choreographer
Geneva Sawyer ... choreographer
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Musical
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030291/
Watched online, excellent print.
A pleasant bit of fluff, but 3 songs under Soundtracks should not a musical make.
Because I watched online, and have no ffwd, and this site has no preview frame when you mouseover the timeline, I won't go back to see if she sang each one herself & alone (Ameche and Young have both sung on film, and the real Josette may have sung, I don't remember).
Nice to have a film set elsewhere than NYC or H'wood, but anything we see of New Orleans is only on the river; IMDb only lists Fox studios for filming location, but I doubt that the river scenes are models in a tank. Might be stock footage.
Worst moment: William Demarest plays the owner of a diner, with the wife as cook. They seem to have a contentious relationship, and she gets violent with him offscreen, throwing him into frame. This is intended as funny, although she looks to be about as big as he, and domestic violence should never have been funny, regardless of the aggressor.
We get some chorus boys and girls framing Josette in her final song, but it wouldn't really pass for dancing. (She's singing in a N'O nightclub for white folks.) Was there more dancing I forgot already, enough to justify 2 choreographers?
Fox, dir. Dwan; 6-
