1h 45min | Musical, Romance | 17 October 1947
Director: Richard Thorpe
Stars: Esther Williams, Lauritz Melchior, Jimmy Durante, Xavier Cugat, May Whitty.
Stanley Donen ... choreographer
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The young man in question, played by Johnny Johnston, has 9 film acting credits ('42-'56); this is the 6th. 7 of his films are music/als; I didn't notice him before, but he sang That Old Black Magic in Star Spangled Rhythm ('42).
The young man in question, played by Johnny Johnston, has 9 film acting credits ('42-'56); this is the 6th. 7 of his films are music/als; I didn't notice him before, but he sang That Old Black Magic in Star Spangled Rhythm ('42).
For music, we get lots of opera, lots of Cugat, lots of Durante, plus 1 Cole Porter tune, Easy to Love, sung at least 3 times in the film, at least once while EW swims pretty but alone in ch4; she's in the pool with her niece in ch24 when she gets the second serenade.
We get a bit of dancing in ch8, but nothing to get excited about.
We get an aquacade in ch11, shown on the poster above.
I should start a list of musicals where the offspring doesn't want to follow the family business and/or the parent/guardian's wishes, and wants to sing/dance instead. Entry 1: The Jazz Singer ('27). What would be a nice brief title for that list? Maybe "I Gotta Singa!"? But will I really go through all these musicals again to capture such a list? Maybe when I'm deciding which musicals to re-watch in round 2. Other list(s) should be Musical Comedies of Deception, Musical Comedies of Misunderstanding.
This film has too much plot, not enough aquacade.
This film has too much plot, not enough aquacade.
MGM, dir. Thorpe; 6
