1h 26min | Comedy, Musical | 10 April 1957 | Color, WS
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Stars: Van Johnson, Piper Laurie, Martha Hyer.
Kenny Williams ... choreographer
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050589/
Watched online, blurry print, letterboxed on 4 sides.
3 songs per Soundtracks.
The dog is the star of the show, and the film's subject is how the man reacts to the dog being the star of their act. Let's see, so to have 86 minutes, that means we need some conflict, so maybe he reacts poorly to the dog being the star? Yup.
VJ is well-cast as a petulant sour-puss has-been hoofer, especially this is not at the Tiffany studio, his (former?) home, MGM.
MH is the co-star of the films within the film, who tries to convince VJ that having his dog star in movies is better than taking their act back on the vaudeville circuit, and I don't even think she mentioned that V. was dying (this is 1930).
PL plays the late teen (she ran away from boarding school) who brings the team to movies; her dad is a producer.
This is a little better than it sounds, only because the dog is a pleasure to watch.
Universal, dir. Leonard; 6-
