I can't believe some producers in the Thirties invested their money into Jo Penner. He's not one bit funny, he's unattractive to the point of being almost disgusting, has a terribly bad voice that has you shiver in horror...in fact, he got on my last nerve watching him strut his untalented self in this movie! And he has the wonderful Betty Grable as his lover? Now! What a joke! A chance for her, her part is so tiny I think she has 2 scenes at most. They have her play a dumb platinum blonde who speaks in such a high pitch she's almost unrecognizable! At least, she sings and dances a little.
Jack Oakie is very good as usual. He doesn't have much of the looks of his playboy character, but he compensates with personality and assurance. I wonder why he's always goofing when he's singing in his movies because for the first time, in that one, I've noticed that he had in fact a very beautiful singing voice when he sings straight.
My favorites in this movie, though, are Ned Sparks, always very, very powerful and funny, and Frances Langford who sings very good, IS very good and had that little something that could have made her a star. She was so thin she reminds of Audrey Hepburn! The movie, though pleasant, is weak at many points. It is slow to start, the plot is unbelievable and the way the Penner character's search of identity is done is not handled very well.
But the whole is still watchable. See it if you have a chance.
Jack Oakie is very good as usual. He doesn't have much of the looks of his playboy character, but he compensates with personality and assurance. I wonder why he's always goofing when he's singing in his movies because for the first time, in that one, I've noticed that he had in fact a very beautiful singing voice when he sings straight.
My favorites in this movie, though, are Ned Sparks, always very, very powerful and funny, and Frances Langford who sings very good, IS very good and had that little something that could have made her a star. She was so thin she reminds of Audrey Hepburn! The movie, though pleasant, is weak at many points. It is slow to start, the plot is unbelievable and the way the Penner character's search of identity is done is not handled very well.
But the whole is still watchable. See it if you have a chance.