1h 39min | Musical | 11 March 1953 | Color
Director: Norman Taurog
Stars: Rosemary Clooney, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Lauritz Melchior.
Jack Baker ... stager: dance numbers
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046364/
Watched online, part 1, part 2; awful, blurry.
Could/should be in the Tap! Appendix Tommy Morton. Next time try to document his dancing in the Soundtracks. 2nd of 3 films for him.
1st of 6 films for RC (b. '28). She sings Come On-a My House as a demo, and claims it'll never go over. It must have been a pretty big hit by then. (As I recall, she didn't like the song when she first heard it in real life either.)
12 songs in the Soundtrack: 4 by RC, 5 by AA, 2 by LM, 2 duets (AA+LM, AA+RC).
Interesting how deep we are in the Cold War now (term 1st used in early '46 by W.Churchill in a speech). AA has defected from the behind the Iron Curtain, and come to LM since they're both opera singers. She has to be hidden until they can straighten out her immigration status (she's wanted for deportation), but they put her on a TV amateur show to win the hearts of America because she can sing.
Paramount, dir. Taurog; 6+
