Big mouthed Joe E. Brown goes from burlesque to the staid drama division of a stuffy university where he tries to liven things up by swinging the Bard by taking on "Kiss Me Kate" long before Cole Porter did. There's an opening very similar to "We Open in Venice" that heads directly into the action with June Havoc ("Baby June") as Kate and Brown an unlikely Petrucchio. Fans of Brown will love this, but hopefully somewhere out there exists the full 70 something minute screen release as opposed to the much shorter streamlined version released for TV.
Review of Casanova in Burlesque
Casanova in Burlesque
(1944)
A musical version of "Taming of the Shrew"? Was someone nuts?
1 May 2018
Warning: Spoilers