Certainly there are some great comedy acts and musical novelty numbers, but plot wise, there's not much going on other than country boy Eddie Quillan going to the Big Apple to try to make it in the big band circuit. He leaves girlfriend Ann Rooney behind and ends up falling for Big City sophisticate Mary Beth Hughes, getting a job in Leon Errol's Irish cafe where forgotten stars like Frances Langford and Leo Carrillo pop on out of the blue and end up getting billing above the title. Seeing a ridiculous scandalous headline of Quillan in the local newspaper, Rooney and disapproving father Samuel S. Hinds head to the Big Apple where they become involved in the confusion, that is when there's room in between the musical numbers.
This is a film that was strictly released for the music, for distractions going on in the war, yet them reminder of what was being fought for. The music of course is terrific, and the specialties are wonderful. You might as well watch a series of 1940's soundiies, basically the music videos of their time, because the plot takes up maybe 15 minutes of the hour long film. There are some great comic bits, particularly rubber legged Errol's reaction to having a musical instrument inserted over his head. Universal seem to make dozens of these films every year during wartime, and many of them are simple entertainments with little plot but great moments of a cultural walk down memory lane. Instead of The Andrews Sisters, we get the King Sisters, basically the same difference with the exception that The Andrews Sisters are still remembered.
This is a film that was strictly released for the music, for distractions going on in the war, yet them reminder of what was being fought for. The music of course is terrific, and the specialties are wonderful. You might as well watch a series of 1940's soundiies, basically the music videos of their time, because the plot takes up maybe 15 minutes of the hour long film. There are some great comic bits, particularly rubber legged Errol's reaction to having a musical instrument inserted over his head. Universal seem to make dozens of these films every year during wartime, and many of them are simple entertainments with little plot but great moments of a cultural walk down memory lane. Instead of The Andrews Sisters, we get the King Sisters, basically the same difference with the exception that The Andrews Sisters are still remembered.