5/10
Duchess of Idaho-Go Peel A Potato **1/2
22 May 2011
Warning: Spoilers
The music is nice and Van Johnson proves that he can sing with the best of them. Amazing that Mel Torme is a bellhop who doesn't do any singing here.

The film is promising but is victimized by the writing of a girl schemes to get her girlfriend's boss to pay attention to her. She throws herself at the boss (John Lund), but along the way she falls for the band leader at the hotel, Johnson.

Look for Amanda Blake in a bit part as a woman victimized by the amorous Lund.

You will have to wonder until the near end of the film to discover why it got the title it did. Dancing between potatoes is a novelty.

As was the case with so many of the Esther Williams films, it ends with harried couples finding love after all.
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