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Director:
Lewis Seiler
Writers:
Robert Ellis (writer)
Dorothy Fields (play)
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Release Date:
1 November 1944 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Musical more
Tagline:
Something FOR YOUR EYES...Something FOR YOUR EARS...Something FOR YOUR HEART! (original print ad - mostly caps) more
Plot:
The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiquita (who gets radio through her teeth!)... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Carmen Miranda ... Chiquita Hart
Michael O'Shea ... Sergeant Ronald 'Rocky' Fulton
Vivian Blaine ... Blossom Hart

Phil Silvers ... Harry Hart
Sheila Ryan ... Melanie Walker
Perry Como ... Sergeant Laddie Green
Glenn Langan ... Lieutenant Ashley Crothers
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Runtime:
87 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #10159) | Sweden:Btl
Company:
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
‘Something For The Boys’ opened in the Alvin Theater on January 7, 1943 starring Ethel Merman and ran for 422 performances. more
Quotes:
Col. Jefferson Calhoun: It's still a grand old place, must be at least a hundred and twenty-five years old.
Harry Hart: Oh come now, Colonel, it couldn't get this old in a hundred and twenty-five years!
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults (1997) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
BATUCA NEGA more

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Back to the vault, 7 April 2001
Author: jaykay-10

Once a staple of studio production, this kind of picture now gives movie musicals a bad name. Especially in the light of what was produced subsequently, such a picture becomes an easy target. Paper-thin story line, forgettable songs throughout, less than memorable performances: Fox tried its best with what it had, but the studio could not approach the level of an MGM musical.

Here, as elsewhere, they cast as a leading man in a musical an actor without discernible singing or dancing talent (Michael O'Shea, meet John Payne, Don Ameche, Tyrone Power). While it is nice to see Vivian Blaine get a chance in a leading role, she is an unremarkable singer and not much of a dancer. Note how she does a few simple steps while the chorines and chorus boys are very busy around her, supposedly creating the impression that she is the star performer in a production number. Fox did the same with Alice Faye and even Betty Grable, who was a hoofer.

Frequently, the studio would upgrade the musical comedy quotient of such pictures with first-rate specialty acts, whose inclusion had nothing to do with the story line, or charismatic supporting players such as Carmen Miranda. Alas, the latter - as great as she is - cannot overcome the limitations of the two mediocre numbers she has to work with here. Even the stuff on her head is unimpressive.

Phil Silvers comes across better than in most of his films, but Perry Como was evidently instructed not to move any muscles except those necessary to emit the lyrics.

Indeed, there have been worse musicals. But given the available personnel and production values, this one should go back to the vault, and stay there.

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