June Allyson and Gloria DeHaven are two sisters who fall for the same sailor, Van Johnson, at a party for servicemen in 1944. Johnson comes from a very wealthy family and anonymously buys the girls (they were "girls" then, not yet "women") a huge warehouse where our boys (they were "boys", etc.) can REALLY be entertained. Of course only one of the girls can wind up with Van Johnson but, not to worry, Sergeant Tom Drake is always hanging around in the background and he gets the other.
More MGM stars than you can shake a baton at -- Harry James, Xavier Cugat, Gracie Allen, Jimmy Durante, Jose Iturbi, everybody. Most of the names will not be familiar to people who weren't around at the time but they were big ones in 1944. Every girl had a crush on Van Johnson.
All of the musical numbers are pleasant in their own quiet way but none are outstanding although they were popular at the time. Never entered the Great American Songbook. Sic transit gloria mundi. Exception: Harry James gets to play "Estrellita", a sentimental love song written around 1912 by the Mexican composer Manuel Ponce, which was immensely popular and never aspired to membership in the Great Songbook. You will probably recognize it.
June Allyson, in her first major role, already looks and sounds like the steadfast, loyal wife she would become in later movie. Gloria DeHaven, on the other hand, had a relatively short career and wound up hosting a TV program in New York. Don't know why her impact was so ephemeral. She has long, fluffy hair, the eyes of a gazelle, and a lower lip that droops sensually, invitingly. She should have gone on to erotic thrillers, the kind in which the babe is rescued from the murderer with her dress half ripped off and some of her underwear showing. What a waste.
Nothing much to the plot -- a series of coincidences and pedestrian interludes between musical numbers. But what a time capsule this is.
More MGM stars than you can shake a baton at -- Harry James, Xavier Cugat, Gracie Allen, Jimmy Durante, Jose Iturbi, everybody. Most of the names will not be familiar to people who weren't around at the time but they were big ones in 1944. Every girl had a crush on Van Johnson.
All of the musical numbers are pleasant in their own quiet way but none are outstanding although they were popular at the time. Never entered the Great American Songbook. Sic transit gloria mundi. Exception: Harry James gets to play "Estrellita", a sentimental love song written around 1912 by the Mexican composer Manuel Ponce, which was immensely popular and never aspired to membership in the Great Songbook. You will probably recognize it.
June Allyson, in her first major role, already looks and sounds like the steadfast, loyal wife she would become in later movie. Gloria DeHaven, on the other hand, had a relatively short career and wound up hosting a TV program in New York. Don't know why her impact was so ephemeral. She has long, fluffy hair, the eyes of a gazelle, and a lower lip that droops sensually, invitingly. She should have gone on to erotic thrillers, the kind in which the babe is rescued from the murderer with her dress half ripped off and some of her underwear showing. What a waste.
Nothing much to the plot -- a series of coincidences and pedestrian interludes between musical numbers. But what a time capsule this is.