Here Come the Waves (1944)Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot. Director:Mark Sandrich |
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Here Come the Waves (1944)Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot. Director:Mark Sandrich |
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| Bing Crosby | ... |
Johnny Cabot
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| Betty Hutton | ... |
Susan /
Rosemary Allison
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| Sonny Tufts | ... |
Windy 'Pinetop' Windhurst
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| Ann Doran | ... |
Ruth
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Gwen Crawford | ... |
Tex
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| Noel Neill | ... |
Dorothy
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Catherine Craig | ... |
Lt. Townsend
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Anabel Shaw | ... |
Isabel
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Twin sisters Rosemary and Susie Allison are successful nightclub performers. Their act is about to come to a close when serious-minded Rosemary announces she's joining the Waves. Fun-loving Susie decides to enlist also, especially after she learns that crooner Johnny Cabot has just been drafted by the Navy. Written by Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
If a plot involves twins you know what you are in for and this film gives you all of the mistaken identity situations that you expect.
Crosby is good as always but seems to be coasting here and the existence of Sonny Tufts' career still escapes me but while this is far from her best film the reason to watch this film is Betty Hutton. She plays twins - one amped up and zany and one demure - and does a very good job with each. The story goes that after this film came out Paramount got a lot of calls from moviegoers asking who the brunette was that played Betty's sister. She does photograph differently in each role and it is not from any makeup but from the differences in her performance.
James Agee wrote about Betty Hutton over 50 years ago, "to me she is beyond good and evil." and I agree with him completely, watching her energy and talent on the screen it is easy to see why she such a huge star in the 1940s and early 50s. Her best films are Annie Get Your Gun, The Perils of Pauline, and The Stork Club. Also try to catch The Fleet's In whenever AMC gets around to showing it to see her first film which instantly turned her into a star.