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Sisters Kay and Barbara arrive in Miami from Texas looking for rich husbands.Sisters Kay and Barbara arrive in Miami from Texas looking for rich husbands.Sisters Kay and Barbara arrive in Miami from Texas looking for rich husbands.
Cobina Wright
- Connie Fentress
- (as Cobina Wright Jr.)
Nick Condos
- Specialty Dancer
- (as Condos Brothers)
Steve Condos
- Specialty Dancer
- (as Condos Brothers)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaCypress Gardens - 2600 S. Lake Summit Drive, Winter Haven, Florida, USA, closed in September 2009, 68 years after filming of this movie. Update: Reopened as Legoland Florida, October 2011.
- GoofsWhen Susan hands Jack a jar of her famous guacamole sauce, the contents of jar are bright red - not green, as an avocado-based sauce would actually be.
- Quotes
Phil O'Neil: Let's see, what do we want? We want you, the juice of the grape and a good hot dance band.
Jeffrey Bolton: But right now we'll settle for those potato chips and cheese.
- ConnectionsEdited into All This and World War II (1976)
- SoundtracksMoon Over Miami
(1935) (uncredited)
Music by Joseph A. Burke
Played during the opening credits
Played also as dance music at both parties
Featured review
Shopworn plot but Grable, Ameche and Cummings in top form...
Fox believed in remakes and this one was used again in THREE LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE and HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE--three girls in search of a millionaire husband. While the plot is a flimsy one, it does give Betty Grable fans a chance to glimpse her in a fluffy technicolor musical (with location photography in Florida), engaged in romantic shenanigans with two leading men (Don Ameche and Robert Cummings), and supported by pros like Jack Haley, Charlotte Greenwood, Carole Landis and Minor Watson.
It's a typical Fox musical made to order for Grable fans and photographed in some scenic Florida locales serving as Miami. Robert Cummings and Don Ameche are impeccably clad and flashing the kind of smiles that belong in a toothpaste ad--thus serving as perfect foils for Betty's curvaceous blonde charms.
Some of the specialty numbers are good--especially those by the Condo Brothers--and Betty herself gets to do a couple of sprightly tap dance routines. None of the music is memorable but it's easy to see why Grable was so popular at the box-office in escapist films of this nature at a time when war weary audiences craved this kind of entertainment at the start of World War II. Her modest talents are on full display here--and Ameche and Cummings show that they had a definite flair for this kind of romantic comedy--especially Cummings who was always better in lighter assignments as opposed to dramatic roles--contrary to what another commentator says.
Carole Landis can do little with her role as Betty's sister (posing as her maid). She is very prettily photographed but walks through the role in an aloof manner that makes her almost invisible.
It's a typical Fox musical made to order for Grable fans and photographed in some scenic Florida locales serving as Miami. Robert Cummings and Don Ameche are impeccably clad and flashing the kind of smiles that belong in a toothpaste ad--thus serving as perfect foils for Betty's curvaceous blonde charms.
Some of the specialty numbers are good--especially those by the Condo Brothers--and Betty herself gets to do a couple of sprightly tap dance routines. None of the music is memorable but it's easy to see why Grable was so popular at the box-office in escapist films of this nature at a time when war weary audiences craved this kind of entertainment at the start of World War II. Her modest talents are on full display here--and Ameche and Cummings show that they had a definite flair for this kind of romantic comedy--especially Cummings who was always better in lighter assignments as opposed to dramatic roles--contrary to what another commentator says.
Carole Landis can do little with her role as Betty's sister (posing as her maid). She is very prettily photographed but walks through the role in an aloof manner that makes her almost invisible.
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- Doylenf
- Jan 15, 2004
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Details
- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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