1h 29min | Music, Romance, War | 17 March 1944
Director: William A. Seiter
Stars: Kay Francis, Carole Landis, Martha Raye, Mitzi Mayfair.
Don Loper ... choreographer
In the Tap! Appendix for Mitzi Mayfair. She has an amazing ability to kick herself while dancing. The number starts with ch11, the beginning of the dance is ~33:30, but it gets really interesting at the 36 minute mark. She dances again in ch22, but doesn't kick that way again. According to the featurette, that kind of dancing is/was called legomania.
Apparently the 4 stars really did a USO tour together, and were in London and North Africa, and actually did ersatz nursing duty while at a hospital abroad, and Carole Landis married a serviceman while there.
Apparently the 4 stars really did a USO tour together, and were in London and North Africa, and actually did ersatz nursing duty while at a hospital abroad, and Carole Landis married a serviceman while there.
OK movie. Previously rated 5 on 31 Jan 2010, but it's got Betty Grable, Alice Fay and Carmen Miranda singing one each of their signature songs, plus some tunes by the Jimmy Dorsey orch, so that's too low. Dick Haymes plays "himself," a romantic interest for MM. I don't think the featurette said anything about a real-life DH/MM romance.
Fox, dir. Seiter; 6
