7/10
A good-humored Russell wearing costumes once thought censurable...
30 October 1999
Warning: Spoilers
The film opens on the eve of Jane Russell wedding day to Craig Stevens...

When Jane discovers that Craig broke with her just for fearing to marry a cheery Texas oil heiress, she takes a trip to France - incognito - on board of the S.S. Liberté, following the advice of her protégé Arthur Hunnicutt...

In New York, she meets an old friend Mary McCarthy, an interesting woman of the 'fashion world' who was about to give on the same ship, an ostentatious arrogant international show of elegant and stylish costumes once believed 'subject to censure.'

Switching and masquerading identities during the voyage as a fashion model with Joyce MacKenzie, Jane falls in love with Gilbert Roland, a good-humored playboy with 'no' money, hired secretly by Hunnicutt to look after her during the trip...

Once arriving to France, everything is cleared and unclouded by the couple, who affirms their deep affection and true love, living happily ever after...

"French Line" is thinly plotted but quite attractive light musical with a star first seen in her 'bubble of excitement' bath scene, then in a daring and gorgeous gown... Russell performs a dance of the 1920s singing "Lookin' for Trouble."

For your record, Kim Novak appears, for the first time, as a model...
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