
Playboy Andy Mason, on leave from the army, romances showgirl Eadie Allen overnight to such effect that she's starry-eyed when he leaves next morning for active duty in the Pacific. Only trouble is, he gave her the assumed name of Casey. Andy's eventual return with a medal is celebrated by his rich father with a benefit show featuring Eadie's show troupe, at which she's sure to learn his true identity...and meet Vivian, his 'family-arrangement' fiancée. Mostly song and dance... (Full plot summary below)
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Playboy Andy Mason, on leave from the army, romances showgirl Eadie Allen overnight to such effect that she's starry-eyed when he leaves next morning for active duty in the Pacific. Only trouble is, he gave her the assumed name of Casey. Andy's eventual return with a medal is celebrated by his rich father with a benefit show featuring Eadie's show troupe, at which she's sure to learn his true identity...and meet Vivian, his 'family-arrangement' fiancée. Mostly song and dance.
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| New YorkerRichard BrodyThe gaudy palette of Busby Berkeley's vertiginous Technicolor musical, from 1943, inspired the director's most extravagant visual inventions ... |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyBusby berekeley's first musical in color is as lurid and eccentric as you would expect, and it's no surpirse that it's become a classic camp, largely due to Carmen Miranda's bananas number. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeThe full flowering of Berkeley's particular genius -- and in incredibly saturated Technicolor, no less -- while being a lesser effort as concerns the nonmusical portions. |
| MUBIMike Archibald...we're all part of the show when it comes to this 1943 musical comedy, accepting and delighting in its escapist frivolity. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonWhether one views this as a kitschy, campy spectacle or merely another splashy musical from the Dream Factory largely depends on one's tolerance for garish colors, kaleidoscopic set-pieces and the sight of Carmen Miranda and her juicy fruits. |
| User ReviewSarah NMy favorite musical of all time. It's not hard to love a movie with giant bananas. |
| User ReviewSophia DCarmen Miranda--need I say more? OK, I will. Edward Everett Horton and Benny Goodman. |
| User ReviewMaríadelMar GBusby Berkeley's masterpiece. The musical numbers are like an acid trip (The banana sequence from "Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat" would make even Freud blush. It's even more hysterical in that it was played completely straight, uh, so to speak...) Carmen Miranda invents camp right in front of our eyes (the opening scene alone is a side-splittah!) and oh, Alice Faye...was there anyone as beautiful? And Benny Goodman...what a treat this movie is. Hard to find but worth the search. |
| User ReviewBen SPure fluff elevated to the upper echelons of art by the presence of peak-period Technicolor & Busby Berkeley. |
| User ReviewJennifer BCarmen Miranda is the best female impersonator of all time! I almost believed it! |