Seen for the first time some seventy years after its initial release this one has a lot of charm going for it. Mom and Dad Fay Bainter and Charles Winninger were seldom out of work in the thirties and forties and are utterly convincing as the ex-vaudevillians settled in New Jersey raising their three children, two girls, one boy.Father is in denial and keeps the family rehearsing a song, dance, and juggling act against the day vaudeville comes back, meanwhile he climbs the corporate ladder slowly but surely. Top-billed Dan Dailey as the son is the most talented and holds out the longest but in the end he too bows to the inevitable. Support from the likes of Sig Ruman and Charlie Ruggles don't do any harm at all and it's a pleasant wallow in nostalgia.
Review of Give My Regards to Broadway
