SYNOPSIS: A group of professors discover what they hope is a foolproof betting system.
COMMENT: Here's an early Ava Gardner (early? - it was her twentieth film) that shows glamorous photography equals star status.
Miss Frances Gifford is the star. She is always so attractively and lovingly photographed by Charles Salerno, the film is a constant pleasure to the eye (even though its slight and mindless story often insults the brain).
Miss Gardner, on the other hand, is put firmly in the shade. Even her most rabid fan would be forced to concede that on the evidence of this film Frances is by far the more alluring lass! Photography is everything, the star is supreme - at least at MGM.
As for the rest of the players, it is slightly painful to watch such talented character actors as Gwen, Owen, Ruman and Halton often losing out in their constant battle against such thin material. They receive no assistance whatever from a totally disinterested, pedestrian director.
Ah! but Miss Gifford's fans: this is a film to have them rejoice, sound their trumpets and make merry. Never has their heroine looked so lovely!
COMMENT: Here's an early Ava Gardner (early? - it was her twentieth film) that shows glamorous photography equals star status.
Miss Frances Gifford is the star. She is always so attractively and lovingly photographed by Charles Salerno, the film is a constant pleasure to the eye (even though its slight and mindless story often insults the brain).
Miss Gardner, on the other hand, is put firmly in the shade. Even her most rabid fan would be forced to concede that on the evidence of this film Frances is by far the more alluring lass! Photography is everything, the star is supreme - at least at MGM.
As for the rest of the players, it is slightly painful to watch such talented character actors as Gwen, Owen, Ruman and Halton often losing out in their constant battle against such thin material. They receive no assistance whatever from a totally disinterested, pedestrian director.
Ah! but Miss Gifford's fans: this is a film to have them rejoice, sound their trumpets and make merry. Never has their heroine looked so lovely!