So This Is Love (1953)

A young singer (Kathryn Grayson) struggles to forge a career for herself. After several years, she achieves success as a Broadway star but she has one ambition left ..... to star at New York's Metropolitan Opera House. Based on the autobiography YOU'RE ONLY HUMAN ONCE by Grace Moore and directed by Gordon Douglas (TONY ROME). Grace Moore isn't much remembered today but in addition to starring on Broadway and opera, she had a successful career in Hollywood too and received a best actress Oscar nomination for ONE NIGHT OF LOVE (1934) and was only 48 when she died in a plane crash in Denmark. This movie biography is typical bio fodder and its by the numbers script is stale. Curiously even though Grayson's not much of an actress, I don't mind her acting and I find her an attractive screen presence but her "singing" is like fingernails scraping a chalkboard to me! We're forced to listen to her operatic vocals but she gets a chance to relax and bump and grind to I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate which is fun. It doesn't help that Grayson is saddled with bland actors like Merv Griffin and Douglas Dick as her romantic leading men. With Joan Weldon, Marie Windsor, Jeff Donnell, Walter Abel, Rosemary DeCamp, Mabel Albertson and Fortunio Bonanova.