(1944)
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Hans J. Wollstein
Although female band-leader Ina Ray Hutton earned star billing, this minor but pleasant musical comedy from Columbia Pictures remains a showcase for three of Hollywood's best supporting clowns: Hugh Herbert, whose patented "woo-woo" is much in evidence, rotund Billy Gilbert, and Fritz Feld. Gilbert, as a song-plugger, leads the company in a rendition of the exuberant "Rosebud, I Love You (You're So Cosmetic)" while Ann Savage (of Detour fame) and future producer Ross Hunter take care of the romance department. It is all very lighthearted and inconsequential and most of all resembles a property deemed too vaporous for the studio's main song-and-dance star of the time, Rita Hayworth.
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Ever Since Venus (1944)
