1h 24min | Comedy, Romance | 29 September 1939
Director: S. Sylvan Simon
Stars: Lana Turner, Richard Carlson, Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, Ann Rutherford, Roscoe Karns.
George King ... dance director
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031203/
The much married (8 times) Lana Turner wed first husband Artie Shaw (2'40-9'40). He was equally wedded (8 times) and she was his 3rd wife.
We get plenty of music in this film, yet this is not classified as a musical or music genre. (We'll see if they take my addition of Music.) LT dances at least twice. She's competent, but not stellar; understandable that her career was as an actress, not actress/dancer. Or maybe the choreography was deliberately not great, so the ending would be plausible.
This plot seems more original than a lot of what I've watched. If it has antecedents, perhaps they weren't classified as music/musicals either.
Richard Carlson stands up well as the romantic/challenging lead for LT. Maybe that's what makes the movie fresher than normal: he spends more time valuing her as Cub (as in cub reporter) than as the object of his affections. And she grows to value the newspaper profession. So when they get together, they have a multi-layered interest in each other. He even values her dancing when he sees it.
MGM, dir. Simon; 6+
