Burlesque star (Blaine) makes it in the big time.Burlesque star (Blaine) makes it in the big time.Burlesque star (Blaine) makes it in the big time.
Stephen Dunne
- Frederick Manly Gerard
- (as Michael Dunne)
Donald MacBride
- Lawyer Ferguson
- (as Donald McBride)
Lex Barker
- Jack - Coast Guardsman
- (uncredited)
Juanita Cole
- Dancer
- (uncredited)
Jimmy Cross
- Harry
- (uncredited)
Boyd Davis
- Spencer Bennett - Publisher
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- Trivia"True to the Navy" (written by Elsie Janis and Jack King), sung and danced by Carmen Miranda, was deleted from this movie, but the song as filmed still exists. Paramount held exclusive rights to the song and it would not permit Twentieth Century-Fox to include Miranda's number in this movie. It was performed previously on screen by Clara Bow in Paramount on Parade (1930), which can be seen on YouTube. The song bears a striking resemblance to "You Can't Get A Man With A Gun" written by Irving Berlin in 1946 for the Broadway musical "Annie Get Your Gun".
- GoofsThe lyrics to "Chico, Chico" mention a wolf at "Hollywood and Pico." Those two streets run parallel and never intersect, but lyricist Harold Adamson likely assumed that most people not living in L.A. wouldn't know or care.
- Quotes
Flo Hartman: I'm also a man who should have his head examined. Not that it would do any good because the doctors wouldn't find anything in it.
- SoundtracksSomebody's Walking in My Dream
(uncredited)
Music by Jimmy McHugh
Lyrics by Harold Adamson
Sung by Vivian Blaine at audition
Later sung and danced by Martha Stewart in finale
Featured review
If I remembered the quotes exactly, I'd add them to the quotes section... the Gayety owner advices one of his male friends who is having trouble with his girlfriend, that women, like carpets, need to be beaten regularly! The man later says to his girlfriend, "yeah, I'll give you your rights, and a couple lefts too!" Predictably, she loves this and he is grateful for the advice he was given. Yikes!
But anyway, it was an OK movie overall. A "burley-Q" performer tries getting a straight job with the support of her manager/boyfriend, but she's not "cultured" enough. After getting a free book with his purchase of chocolates, he hits on the idea of hiring a ghostwriter to do her "autobiography," which will make her seem cultured. He then hits on the idea of using the pre-publicity to stage his own musical starring her at his own theater, rather than give the pleasure to the man that rejected her. The ghostwriter grows sweet on her, and there's a bit of an idiot plot involving a misunderstanding when they get stranded in a boat en route to the publisher.
Carmen Miranda is underutilized, apparently she had a number cut. Hopefully it can be restored someday.
But anyway, it was an OK movie overall. A "burley-Q" performer tries getting a straight job with the support of her manager/boyfriend, but she's not "cultured" enough. After getting a free book with his purchase of chocolates, he hits on the idea of hiring a ghostwriter to do her "autobiography," which will make her seem cultured. He then hits on the idea of using the pre-publicity to stage his own musical starring her at his own theater, rather than give the pleasure to the man that rejected her. The ghostwriter grows sweet on her, and there's a bit of an idiot plot involving a misunderstanding when they get stranded in a boat en route to the publisher.
Carmen Miranda is underutilized, apparently she had a number cut. Hopefully it can be restored someday.
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- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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