It may well be that the powers that be decided that after signing Gene Kelly for one movie on the strength of his leading role in Pal Joey on Broadway it might be an idea to have him play another heel, i.e. to replicate his role as Pal Joey. Whatever that is exactly what he does until the inevitable volte face when he decides to allow the love of a good woman to reform him. It's unusual inasmuch as there is not one original number, the entire score consists of numbers that were the mainstay of vaudeville which is fitting as this is, in one respect, a valentine to the old two-a-day schtick on the Keith-Orpheum circuit. Garland and Kelly work well together and George Murphy weighs in as the nice guy who loses the girl to the heel. Nothing particularly memorable but neither is it chopped liver.
Review of For Me and My Gal
