If I'm Lucky (1946)

A swing band performs at a gubernatorial candidate's (Edgar Buchanan) rallies across the state and becomes very popular. So popular that when the candidate disappears, the band's crooner (Perry Como) is lured by a corrupt political machine into replacing him. A remake of the 1935 film THANKS A MILLION and directed by Lewis Seiler (GUADALCANAL DIARY). This innocuous musical doesn't have much going for it and it appears 20th Century Fox didn't have much faith in it either. It was the last film on both Carmen Miranda and Perry Como's Fox contracts and they didn't even bother to shoot it in Technicolor which was almost de rigeur for post WWII musicals and went with the less costly B&W lensing. The songs by Leo Robin and Harry Warren aren't much though the title song is a pleasant enough ballad and Carmen Miranda in B&W diminishes her outrageousness. With Vivian Blaine, Harry James and Reed Hadley.