I know I'm projecting but this film feels as though it wants to be a musical - everyone bursts into song in one scene, and in another Ginger Rogers does a dance, and it just always feels like people want to sing.
It's a fun tale, quite cynical. They added George Montgomery to be pure of heart, as a journalist who loves Roxie (Ginger) but he mostly just watches her, and narrates the story... he doesn't influence the narrative. The ending which reveals they got married and had six kids with another on the way is kind of depressing.
Ginger is having a great time. The perm isn't very attractive. I didn't mind the censor changes.
I'm not a massive fan of this story but it is fun and cynicism ages well.
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