Something For The Boys (1944)

Three cousins (Carmen Miranda, Phil Silvers, Vivian Blaine) who have never met each other inherit a dilapidated mansion in Georgia. They decide to turn the mansion into a rooming house for Army wives so they can be near their husbands stationed at a nearby Army base. Very loosely based on the Broadway musical and directed by Lewis Seiler (GUADALCANAL DIARY). As usual, Hollywood thinks it knows best and they tossed out almost the entire Cole Porter songs from the Broadway show and substituted new songs written for especially for the movie version. The songs are a dire lot and we have to wait until the end of the movie for a decent production number. The usually always fun Carmen Miranda seems restrained here and the rest of the cast isn't sufficiently charged to provide any sparks though Phil Silvers tries. With Judy Holliday, Perry Como, Cara Williams, Sheila Ryan, Glenn Langan and Michael O'Shea.