Movie history was made with this 1949 film. Whoever expected that Jack Carson, who was robbed of supporting Oscar nominations for "Mildred Pierce," in 1945 and for "A Star is Born," 9 years later, would wind up with the girl by the end of this reviewed film. The girl being of all people Doris Day. While it's certainly not a flaw in a picture, Carson, always the abrasive, go-getter type, was not exactly your leading man in films.
A flaw in this film is where a child is screaming mommy, mommy at the airport, while his widowed mother, Day, goes to Hollywood with Carson, her new promoter to seek a career as a singer. This is certainly an emotional scene, but Day soon acts as if the child never existed, and it's not until 40 minutes later that the child reenters the film.
Otherwise, we have a good story here where Day is constantly being prevented from success. Some of the reasons are even comical. Lee Bowman, as the conceited singer, really shows his true ways at the very end of the film. There was a brief period in the film where I actually thought we were going into "A Star is Born," when Day finally makes it and Bowman, her beau, is hitting the bottle.
S.Z. Sakall doesn't offer much in the movie. Of course, he fractures the English language once more with his line "Alcholics Unanimous." Selena Royle, his wife in the film, is given little to do. Eve Arden is back with Carson, and she is given some of the biting lines. Adolph Menjou, as the radio producer, also offers very little here.
It doesn't take much to realize that Day didn't at first succeed given the type of sings she was singing. They were absolutely awful, but the title song "My Dreams is Yours" was memorable.
A flaw in this film is where a child is screaming mommy, mommy at the airport, while his widowed mother, Day, goes to Hollywood with Carson, her new promoter to seek a career as a singer. This is certainly an emotional scene, but Day soon acts as if the child never existed, and it's not until 40 minutes later that the child reenters the film.
Otherwise, we have a good story here where Day is constantly being prevented from success. Some of the reasons are even comical. Lee Bowman, as the conceited singer, really shows his true ways at the very end of the film. There was a brief period in the film where I actually thought we were going into "A Star is Born," when Day finally makes it and Bowman, her beau, is hitting the bottle.
S.Z. Sakall doesn't offer much in the movie. Of course, he fractures the English language once more with his line "Alcholics Unanimous." Selena Royle, his wife in the film, is given little to do. Eve Arden is back with Carson, and she is given some of the biting lines. Adolph Menjou, as the radio producer, also offers very little here.
It doesn't take much to realize that Day didn't at first succeed given the type of sings she was singing. They were absolutely awful, but the title song "My Dreams is Yours" was memorable.