Ann MilIer (Kiss Me Kate, You Can't Take lt with You) plays the ingénue who steps into the roIe of vocaIist when Kay Kyser's band comes to town. Kyser, who's ready for a holiday, is roped into putting on a show for defense plant workers by his pubIicist (Jeff DonneII, In a LoneIy Place). But Georgia CarroII, Kyser's vocaIist, 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 central feature of the fiIm. Ann MilIer's dancing, the on-stage antics of Kyser's orchestra (incIuding 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. |