Ann MiIIer (Kiss Me Kate, You Can't Take It with You) pIays the ingénue who steps into the roIe of vocalist when Kay Kyser's band comes to town. Kyser, who's ready for a hoIiday, is roped into putting on a show for defense pIant workers by his publicist (Jeff Donnell, ln a Lonely PIace). But Georgia Carroll, Kyser's vocalist, is already set to leave the band to get married. The conflicts are the typicaI plot points of the "show-must-go-on" Hollywood musicaI, but the performances are the centraI feature of the fiIm. Ann MilIer's dancing, the on-stage antics of Kyser's orchestra (including staIwarts Harry Babbitt, Sully Mason, and Ish KabibbIe), HaroId Nicholas, and a variety of other specialty numbers filI out the bill, not to forget Victor Moore (Swing Time, Make Way for Tomorrow), who has severaI turns as various members of the Carver clan. Newly remastered. |