Margaret Dumont provides a musical moment in this World War II farce that turns her into the San Francisco version of Florence Foster Jenkins, singing "Over the Waves" so sincerely as if she thought she was Maria Callas. She's so flat you could put syrup on her and serve her as a pancake, but that moment is a refreshing distraction from the nonsense called a plotline here. Playboy merchant marine Gordon Oliver is home on leave, visiting society mom Marjorie Gateson who is trying to push him together with socialite Elaine Shepard, while two cabaret musicians (Virginia Mayo and Amelita Ward) both insist that they're engaged to him, sparring while fiddling on their stratavarious.
This follow-up to "Seven Days Leave" (not a sequel) features that 1942 film's Marcy McGuire as the leading singer in the nightclub sequences, and bemoaning the fact that she can't find a dancing partner. Her efforts for "Ready, Aim, Kiss" don't go unrewarded though as she steals the film, as well as Dumont's musical number, breaking in on her with a fun "Samba" and a novelty number ("Sioux City Sue") where she spoofs Judy Canova. Acrobatic Miriam Lavale gets a few nice specialties, and "Casablanca's" Dooley Wilson shines with a few musical moments as Gateson's butler. Serving a purpose to provide a bit of patriotic war propaganda, this is simply a nice, entertaining B little musical where the lack of a decent plot just isn't important.
This follow-up to "Seven Days Leave" (not a sequel) features that 1942 film's Marcy McGuire as the leading singer in the nightclub sequences, and bemoaning the fact that she can't find a dancing partner. Her efforts for "Ready, Aim, Kiss" don't go unrewarded though as she steals the film, as well as Dumont's musical number, breaking in on her with a fun "Samba" and a novelty number ("Sioux City Sue") where she spoofs Judy Canova. Acrobatic Miriam Lavale gets a few nice specialties, and "Casablanca's" Dooley Wilson shines with a few musical moments as Gateson's butler. Serving a purpose to provide a bit of patriotic war propaganda, this is simply a nice, entertaining B little musical where the lack of a decent plot just isn't important.