1h 33min | Comedy, Musical | 29 August 1947 (USA)
Director: George Marshall
Stars: Mary Hatcher, Olga San Juan, DeForest Kelley.
Billy Daniel ... choreographer
Bernard Pearce ... choreographer
Daniel Dare ... producer (former choreographer)
Watched online, good print.
Somehow Paramount seems to do these things better than other studios. They keep each appearance short and sweet, so if you don't like this one, there'll be another along in a minute. Plus we have Hope & Crosby more than once (together twice).
I must get an official release and watch it again. Supposedly Johnny Coy is here. I also missed Sonny Tufts (except the curtain call) and Robert Preston.
The new-girl, Mary Hatcher, has a voice like Kathryn Grayson, but with more personality and less snooty beauty, but from some angles they could be sisters. This is the 4th of her 8 films ('44-'51); 3 are music/als. As promising as she was here, we may not see her again in this quest (Holiday in Havana (1949) is not online today.)
This is the 6th of 12 films for Olga San Juan, and the 4th music/al seen in this quest; I've never noticed her before. She's a singer/dancer, but played Not one here. I have 2 more of her films in my collection.
If I didn't know DeForest Kelley from ST:TOS, I wouldn't have noticed him here, unless to say "that was the 3rd billed role?". It's a nondescript role, and he plays it accordingly.
Paramount, dir. Marshall; 7
