1h 32min | Musical | 8 June 1948
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Stars: Dan Dailey, Charles Winninger, Nancy Guild, Charles Ruggles, Fay Bainter.
Seymour Felix ... dance director
Watched online, mediocre print.
Only 1 song in the Soundtrack! Others were in the film, but not many.
They synopsis doesn't do the plot justice. The family is unable to continue in vaudeville because vaudeville ceases while the sisters are still pre-school (brother is older). Dad (CW) gets a steady job in a factory, but they still dream of performing, and train all the children to juggle & dance. First one sister, then the other, escapes by marriage, leaving DD as the only child still interested in performing. But even he gets pulled into the "legit" world, where his employer gets him on the company baseball team, and offers him a scholarship to MIT in engineering.
Then suddenly, out of nowhere, a fellow former vaudevillian offers the family 16 weeks in Denver, with a possible tour after, and CW wants to take it. But it would be only he and DD, and DD is torn by loyalty to dad/showbiz, and the non-showbiz life he's grown to enjoy. DD has a romantic interest during this part of the film, but I don't know the actress.
DD dances well, and juggles pretty well too. CW and Barbara Lawrence juggle well too, unless the editing made me think CW was juggling when he may not have been.
They synopsis doesn't do the plot justice. The family is unable to continue in vaudeville because vaudeville ceases while the sisters are still pre-school (brother is older). Dad (CW) gets a steady job in a factory, but they still dream of performing, and train all the children to juggle & dance. First one sister, then the other, escapes by marriage, leaving DD as the only child still interested in performing. But even he gets pulled into the "legit" world, where his employer gets him on the company baseball team, and offers him a scholarship to MIT in engineering.
Then suddenly, out of nowhere, a fellow former vaudevillian offers the family 16 weeks in Denver, with a possible tour after, and CW wants to take it. But it would be only he and DD, and DD is torn by loyalty to dad/showbiz, and the non-showbiz life he's grown to enjoy. DD has a romantic interest during this part of the film, but I don't know the actress.
DD dances well, and juggles pretty well too. CW and Barbara Lawrence juggle well too, unless the editing made me think CW was juggling when he may not have been.
Fox, dir. Bacon, 6
