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Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Springtime In The Rockies (1942)

Tired of her boyfriend and dance partner's (John Payne) philandering, a Broadway musical comedy star (Betty Grable) breaks off both their romance and their professional partnership. Not one to give up, he follows her to the Canadian Rockies where she is performing at a posh resort but finds she's engaged to her new dance partner (Cesar Romero). Based on the short story SECOND HONEYMOON by Philip Wylie (previously filmed in 1937) and directed by Irving Cummings (THE DOLLY SISTERS). This Technicolor musical romp is typical 20th Century Fox musical fare. Lightweight, colorful and insubstantial. But it has the immensely likable Betty Grable, the Brazilian bombshell Carmen Miranda murdering the English language and expert second bananas like Edward Everett Horton and Charlotte Greenwood amid the Technicolor Rockies so it's hard to resist despite (or maybe because of) the silliness of it all. With Jackie Gleason, Harry James and Helen Forrest.

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