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4.0 out of 5 stars
UNDERRATED GEM OF A FILM, February 23, 2003
This review is from: Show Business [VHS] (VHS Tape)
A nearly forgotten delight from 1944. In the colourful era of belles-in-bloomers-and beer-in-buckets, trouped ambitious groups of loveable hams known as show folks, all dreaming of the Big Time. A truly entertaining, zestfully enacted excursion into an era long past, this movie has long been considered one of the best dealing with its title. In 1914, vaudevillian Eddie Martin (Cantor) meets up with a hoofer George Doane (George Murphy): together they work on the stage where Eddie wins first prize. The boys go celebrate at Kelly's Cafe, where they meet two dames played by Constance Ford & the hilariously vivacious Joan Davis...Naturally, there is much more to this fun-filled nostalgic-flavoured film - which was based in part on Cantor's own career - it remains unjustly nearly forgotton. The film's theme is Gus Kahn's IT HAD TO BE YOU & there was an entertaining 1948 sequel also starring Cantor & Davis entitled IF YOU KNEW SUSIE.
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