1h 23min | Musical | 5 August 1959 | b/w, fs
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writers: Raphael Hayes, James West
Stars: Louis Prima, Keely Smith, James Gregory, Henry Slate.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052887/
Watched online, mediocre print, very wobbly (vhs artifacts).
10 songs in the Soundtracks, only 2 written by LP.
LP & KS are the antecedent to Sonny & Cher. Cher (b. '46) met Sonny in '62. In this film, LP & KS play people who just met, so they don't have the bickering act on stage that I relate to S&C's TV shows. KS also started singing with LP at age 16; they divorced in '61. She was his 4th of 5 wives. She's part Cherokee, as Cher's mother is reported to be.
This looks like their only film acting together. They also appeared in Senior Prom (1958); looks like they were a music act there. I didn't find that online. And in Ocean's 11 (1960) they have a performance credit. After that, their collaborations jump to '80, just Soundtrack stuff. She has a 3rd acting credit: Thunder Road (1958).
Columbia, dir. Rich; 6+