Neither terrible nor an effervescent delight this minor comic mystery has the usual MGM sheen and excellent supporting staff but plot holes you could drive a truck through.
The story, or what there is of it, is harmless enough but characters aside from the featured pair just drop out of view with no explanation or resolution to their part of the tale. Case in point Louis Calhern is charming and funny at the beginning of the film then vanishes while it seems he should still be there. Angela Lansbury, in what amounts to a cameo, is chic and forbidding but she pops in and out at random points and also disappears abruptly.
While the film definitely has shortcomings it also has some charms chief among them a nightclub performance by an absolutely sensational looking Dorothy Dandridge who is in fine voice, it's worth watching the film to catch it alone.
This last pairing of June Allyson and Van Johnson shows the studio that made her a star was running out of ideas of how to showcase her. She was wise to move on since her next film, The Glenn Miller Story, opened up a whole new career for her as the perfect wife to numerous big stars in several huge hits over the coming decade.
Strictly for fans of the two top-lined stars, if you like them you'll enjoy the film but it's neither performers best work.
The story, or what there is of it, is harmless enough but characters aside from the featured pair just drop out of view with no explanation or resolution to their part of the tale. Case in point Louis Calhern is charming and funny at the beginning of the film then vanishes while it seems he should still be there. Angela Lansbury, in what amounts to a cameo, is chic and forbidding but she pops in and out at random points and also disappears abruptly.
While the film definitely has shortcomings it also has some charms chief among them a nightclub performance by an absolutely sensational looking Dorothy Dandridge who is in fine voice, it's worth watching the film to catch it alone.
This last pairing of June Allyson and Van Johnson shows the studio that made her a star was running out of ideas of how to showcase her. She was wise to move on since her next film, The Glenn Miller Story, opened up a whole new career for her as the perfect wife to numerous big stars in several huge hits over the coming decade.
Strictly for fans of the two top-lined stars, if you like them you'll enjoy the film but it's neither performers best work.