One of Alice Faye's last and best costume period pieces, this has a great score of pre-World War I numbers and terrific performances by the four leads. Alice covered this ground before, but she always covers like no one else can.
When Darryl Zanuck signed John Payne, I have always maintained that he was looking for another Tyrone Power who could sing. In the series of pictures that Alice Faye and Betty Grable and June Haver did with Payne, Zanuck got what he wanted. Payne had a pleasant singing voice and the roles he played are similar to what Power played, the hero/heel in stuff like Rose of Washington Square, In Old Chicago, A Yank In the RAF, etc.
Jack Oakie and June Haver are a couple of very adept comedians and also look for the performance that Lynn Bari gives as the society woman Payne marries to further his career.
Also the one song Alice Faye introduced that won an Academy Award is in this picture, You'll Never Know. That was back when that category meant something.
Catch it if you can.
When Darryl Zanuck signed John Payne, I have always maintained that he was looking for another Tyrone Power who could sing. In the series of pictures that Alice Faye and Betty Grable and June Haver did with Payne, Zanuck got what he wanted. Payne had a pleasant singing voice and the roles he played are similar to what Power played, the hero/heel in stuff like Rose of Washington Square, In Old Chicago, A Yank In the RAF, etc.
Jack Oakie and June Haver are a couple of very adept comedians and also look for the performance that Lynn Bari gives as the society woman Payne marries to further his career.
Also the one song Alice Faye introduced that won an Academy Award is in this picture, You'll Never Know. That was back when that category meant something.
Catch it if you can.