Joan Caulfield isn't one of the top rated stars but she's charming here - bright, pretty, with a great figure, very likeable. She's a nerdy college professor raised at the college - a nice touch, kind of like Snow White - who does do song and dance production numbers in her bathroom wearing just a towel so you know there's a fire burning inside. She visits New York to appear at a conference and is pursued by artist Bob Cummings who wants to sketch her. She goes to a nightclub and there's various shenanigans - act two he turns up at the college to pursue her and sketch her. He blackmails her a few times so it has some consent issues, like many films of this time... I went with it in part because Cummings was charming and Caulfield seems into it. Her character is certainly very very keen to take her clothes off and get into a swim suit.
Act three Caulfield comes to New York to be with Cummings and he doesn't want to be with her because... oh some silly reason. He's upset that she wants him to focus on cheesecake drawings instead of profiles, which feels contrived.
Melville Cooper and especially Elsa Lanchester add pep to the support cast. The colors are bright and the tunes enjoyable - the film has a breezy tone and seems to glory in beauty and the female form in a non sleazy way. Maybe three stars is too much but I liked this.
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