Slightly Scandalous (1946) Poster

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4/10
Get the chart ready. You're going to need it to try to figure out who is who.
mark.waltz9 July 2019
Warning: Spoilers
This is probably one of the most convoluted B Universal musicals, dealing with three girls Sheila Ryan, Paula Drew, Lita Baron) and two twin brothers (Fred Brady, with a surprise added later on) involved in putting on a radio show and dealing with the romantic complications caused by the confusion. It isn't only the three girls and the family of one of theirs who will be confused. It's going to be the audience as well. But in the meantime, you got a nice little explanation of all the different kinds of kissing throughout history as well as a variety of specialty numbers that are pleasant in a dated sense.

There is also a magician waiter that provide some very funny gags including an elegant dish that turns into croaking frogs, a harpy aunt (Anne O'Neal) who walks around with a baby duckling in her hand, forgetting it's there, and getting applause from a random seal who appears out of nowhere. What happens to the magician, seemingly unimportant character in the first 15 minutes, is never explained. Walter Catlett, an able comic, text over a role obviously meant for Leon Errol, bringing on different types of laughs. The result is a two reel short padded out to an hour with an obscure cast that ends up being pretty forgettable right off, that is if you don't have a headache afterwards from simply trying to figure it all out.
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