The Daughter Of Rosie O'Grady (1950)

An ex-vaudevillian (James Barton) is anti show business and when his middle daughter (June Haver) shows aspirations for a show business career, he puts his foot down and forbids it. But that won't stop her and she gets a job with a producer (Gordon MacRae) who has romantic aspirations in her direction. Directed by David Butler (ROAD TO MOROCCO). A routine nostalgic Warners musical set in the early 1900s and if that's your cup of tea then this concoction should do it for you. It's reminiscent of those old fashioned nostalgic Technicolor musicals 20th Century Fox used to do with Betty Grable (THE DOLLY SISTERS) and Alice Faye (LILLIAN RUSSELL) in the 1940s but by the 1950s, they were wearing thin. The only musical number I actually enjoyed was a lively ragtime dance by Haver and Gene Nelson. As the obnoxious father, James Barton is incredibly annoying and one wonders why his daughters stick around and take his abuse. As the youngest daughter, Debbie Reynolds makes her film debut but she comes across as an ordinary ingenue. She moved to MGM after this film and they realized she was no ordinary starlet and she soon became one of MGM's most popular stars. With S.Z. Sakall, Jane Darwell, Marsha Jones and Sean McClory.