1h 34min | Musical | 27 March 1948
Director: James V. Kern
Stars: Jack Carson, Ann Sothern, Robert Alda, Robert Ellis.
LeRoy Prinz ... choreographer
In the Tap! Appendix for Jack Carson, Ann Sothern, Robert Ellis.
15 songs on the Soundtracks page, but many performed partially.
I'm not a fan of JC. He always strikes me as unhappy with his lot in life: that he wishes he were more handsome, a bigger star, something. His 94 film credits span '37-'61; this is his 72nd film. He sings/dances proficiently. I just wouldn't choose a film because he was in it.
RA is a vaudeville song&dance man/ B'way actor, who did films along the way. So he also sings/dances/acts well enough to play this part.
RE (b. 1933, looks younger) is the best dancer on the screen (perhaps including the stand-ins we see from afar doing acrobatics for JC & AS).
Also very good are the twins who dance acrobatically with RA in his act before he joins AS & RE. I can't find anyone in the credits that might be them.
I'm not a fan of JC. He always strikes me as unhappy with his lot in life: that he wishes he were more handsome, a bigger star, something. His 94 film credits span '37-'61; this is his 72nd film. He sings/dances proficiently. I just wouldn't choose a film because he was in it.
RA is a vaudeville song&dance man/ B'way actor, who did films along the way. So he also sings/dances/acts well enough to play this part.
RE (b. 1933, looks younger) is the best dancer on the screen (perhaps including the stand-ins we see from afar doing acrobatics for JC & AS).
Also very good are the twins who dance acrobatically with RA in his act before he joins AS & RE. I can't find anyone in the credits that might be them.
This film is about a mediocre vaudeville team that gets much better when their son joins the act. But dad misses a performance (got drunk) and is black-balled from performing, so RA takes his place and the act soars to success (although they don't strike me as being all that good). Conflicts ensue, of course.
I like AS, but not enough to bring this to a recommended rating.
Warner, dir, Kern; 6
