Burlesque star (Blaine) makes it in the big time.Burlesque star (Blaine) makes it in the big time.Burlesque star (Blaine) makes it in the big time.
Stephen Dunne
- Frederick Manly Gerard
- (as Michael Dunne)
Donald MacBride
- Lawyer Ferguson
- (as Donald McBride)
Lex Barker
- Jack - Coast Guardsman
- (uncredited)
Juanita Cole
- Dancer
- (uncredited)
Jimmy Cross
- Harry
- (uncredited)
Boyd Davis
- Spencer Bennett - Publisher
- (uncredited)
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- Trivia"True to the Navy" (written by Elsie Janis and Jack King), sung and danced by Carmen Miranda, was deleted from this movie, but the song as filmed still exists. Paramount held exclusive rights to the song and it would not permit Twentieth Century-Fox to include Miranda's number in this movie. It was performed previously on screen by Clara Bow in Paramount on Parade (1930), which can be seen on YouTube. The song bears a striking resemblance to "You Can't Get A Man With A Gun" written by Irving Berlin in 1946 for the Broadway musical "Annie Get Your Gun".
- GoofsThe lyrics to "Chico, Chico" mention a wolf at "Hollywood and Pico." Those two streets run parallel and never intersect, but lyricist Harold Adamson likely assumed that most people not living in L.A. wouldn't know or care.
- Quotes
Flo Hartman: I'm also a man who should have his head examined. Not that it would do any good because the doctors wouldn't find anything in it.
- SoundtracksSomebody's Walking in My Dream
(uncredited)
Music by Jimmy McHugh
Lyrics by Harold Adamson
Sung by Vivian Blaine at audition
Later sung and danced by Martha Stewart in finale
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Where's Carmen's Tutti-Frutti Hat When You Need It?
I started to read a fellow critique of this and stopped, but I too am writing this to let you Miranda fans that this isn't the movie for you, if you want Carmen, Carmen, and more Carmen! She sings one song I think in this movie based on a book written by Louise Hovick AKA Gypsy Rose Lee. You see, there's this stripper, played by Vivian Blaine, who can't get a job out of the business to go legitimate, because, in auditions when they find out who she is, they don't want an ex-stripper in their stage play/musical. So, she and her boyfriend/manager Dennis O'Keefe decide she needs to write a book to get respect and hire a ghost writer to help her.
Perry Como is on hand with his smooth voice, but while the movie has its moments, there aren't enough good songs or Miranda to get really excited about or to really recommend it.
Perry Como is on hand with his smooth voice, but while the movie has its moments, there aren't enough good songs or Miranda to get really excited about or to really recommend it.
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- May 18, 2010
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- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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