Movie review - "Pin Up Girl" (1944) **1/2

The plots of Betty Grable movies were never the strongest but this ones particularly weak - she's a typist who pretends to be a singing staring order to impress a war hero (someone called Joe Harvey, proving that Betty Grable movies needed a decent male lead). He doesn't notice that the typist and singing star are two different people - because she wears glasses. Uh-huh. And that's about it. To compensate the studio shove the film wall-to-wall with musical numbers and novelty acts - there's Joe E Brown, Martha Raye, some roller skaters and tap dancers, and elaborate musical numbers (very well done with clever use of cranes a la Busby Berkeley). Its like a good old fashioned crappy Ziegfeld follies, complete with "turns" from guest stars and lots of chorus girls.