After struggling to become a success, Betty Miller and her all-girl orchestra finally hit pay dirt when crooner Herbie Fenton comes on board. Problems arise when Betty and her girls try to ... 1h 36min | Comedy, Music, Romance | 13 July 1945
Director: Hal Walker
Stars: Eddie Bracken, Veronica Lake, Diana Lynn.
Sammy Lee ... choreographer
Watched online, ok print.
Let me continue the synopsis: ...raise funds to get to a New York audition. They sell shares in EB's contract that add to 125%. So they try to manipulated events to make him fail, then to make him succeed, and finally to make him unable to sing at all due to illness.
It's all rather tedious. And the whole time I'm waiting for some payoff on the fact that EB's singing voice is Bing Crosby. They even plant the 4 Crosby sons (look ages 5-10) in the early scene at the orphanage (why are they there? "You know pop and his horses.") to confirm that EB's voice is one they know. But all that happens is EB says "thanks Bing" in the final moments of the film.
So the good news is we get a lot of BC singing, but unfortunately without himself onscreen. Also good news: it's not EB being frantic, but Dianna Lynn, and she's sort of calm about being frantic. Other news: Cass Daley sings a couple of songs; she's the poor-man's Martha Raye, even sounds like her, but MR has a much shorter frame and gorgeous legs and hourglass figure if ya know what I mean. Not sure how the choreographer earned his credit, unless it was CD's moves.
So it's pleasant, and if you don't spend the whole time wondering why BC is dubbing EB, it might be even more so.
Paramount, dir. Walker; 6
