Three For The Show (1955)

A musical comedy star (Betty Grable) and her actor/writer husband (Gower Champion) are closing their hit show after three years and taking a long needed vacation. But without warning, her first husband (Jack Lemmon) who was reported killed in action by the Air Force shows up. It seems it was all a mistake. But what's a girl to do with two husbands? Based on the play HOME AND BEAUTY by W. Somerset Maugham (which was previously filmed in 1940 as TOO MANY HUSBANDS), this version is glossed up in Technicolor and CinemaScope with songs by George and Ira Gershwin, Hoagy Carmichael and Harold Adamson (GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES) among others and dances by Jack Cole. It's actually one of Grable's better movies, certainly an improvement over the mindless piffle she churned out in the 1940s at Fox. Lemmon is out of his element here. He's a barely adequate singer and a weak dancer which leaves Gower Champion to take over leading man duties. Directed by H.C. Potter (MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE). With Marge Champion and Myron McCormick.