Glamour Girl (1948) Poster

(1948)

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Filling in the who-did-what blanks in the plot summary.
horn-530 November 2006
Which, since I wrote it (the IMDb summary, not the plot), I presume I can do.

Susan Reed was a folk singer,born in Columbia, South Caroline with part of her childhood years spent in Ashville, North Carolina, working mostly in NYC night clubs (Cafe Society Uptown for one), who usually accompanied her songs playing either a zither (mostly), harps or lutes. Her songs in this film were: "Turtle Dove," "The Soldier and the Lady," "Molly Malone," "Go Way From My Window" and "Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair." While billed 5th in the cast, she did get all upper-case letters but shared the line with a musical instrument...as in SUSAN REED AND HER ZITHER. Susan's Reed's non-P.C. attributes included more than just her zither.

Jack Leonard (not the comedian Jack E. Leonard) was a former vocalist with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and sings Jule Styne's and Sammy Cahn's "Anywhere" and "Without Imagination" written by Columbia Pictures' resident (mostly) songwriters Allan Roberts and Doris Fisher.

The musical offerings from the top billed GENE KRUPA AND HIS ORCHESTRA (16 musicians and vocalist Carolyn Grey)included a novelty number, "Gene's Boogie", by Segar Ellis and George Williams, and Krupa's rewritten-version of Rubenstein's "Melody in F."
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4/10
They went out searching for American Bandstand and returned with Hee Haw.
mark.waltz28 December 2018
Warning: Spoilers
I must admit that there were some moments in this corny little musical that were quite cute but you have to be in a certain mood to listen to the type of music that this film for the most part offers. Certainly the Gene Krupa numbers are very upbeat and will get your toes tapping, but every time Susan Reed began to sing, I started looking at my watch to see if it was bedtime. Not that her voice is bad or boring, but each song is like a comfortable lullaby that my mother might have son to me years ago. In fact, some of the songs remind many of the inspirational songs sung by Debbie Reynolds in the musical classic "The Singing Nun".

Virginia Grey, Michael Duane and Jack Leonard are the acting stars of this film, promoting the sweet Reed as the newest find for their recording company even though at first, Leonard wants no part of the innocuous Reed who seems to be playing herself with a soft spoken line delivery. The film mixes a variety of musical themes with brief period of plot development, so it seems closer to a concert intermixed with dialogue and that makes this often tedious in its structure. What the title "Glamour Girl" has to do with the plot I am still trying to figure out, and it certainly could have been worse. Grey could have come back with someone truly Pickin' and a grinnin'.
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