After a series of 'shorts' dating from the late thirties (thus before his breakout role on Broadway in 1941's Lady In The Dark) Danny Kaye was signed by Sam Goldwyn who built a series of musical-comedy films around him beginning with Up In Arms in 1944. The Kid From Brooklyn was a third outing and in my opinion it fell below the standard of UIA and it's successor Wonder Man. What TKFB does have is the brilliant Eve Arden and Walter Abel who, are, alas, offset by the lackluster Vera Ellen and the insipid Virginia Mayo. The plot - based on the Harold Lloyd vehicle The Milky Way - has Kaye as a milquetoast milkman who accidentally decks champion boxer Steve Cochran and is then hyped by Abel as Cochran's manager. Predictable.
Review of The Kid from Brooklyn
