By this stage 20th Century Fox knew that if they had Betty Grable in a musical all they needed was colour, a couple of talented support comics, a silly plot and some numbers. Her leading man in this is the famously anonymous Joe Harvey – he’s actually not that bad in an aw gee 50s sitcom kind of way, if not a movie star. The plot has Betty Grable romancing him (he’s a war hero) then pretending to be a secretary so he won’t think she’s a liar – he doesn’t recognise her because she wears glasses.
Zanuck must have known it was a lame set up but I guess they didn’t mind in war time. He threw in a very solid support cast – Eugene Palette, Martha Scott, Joe E. Brown. It has colour and movement and Grable. She doesn't show her legs that much.
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