Wednesday, January 23, 2013

You Were Meant for Me (1948)

Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Fox Movie Channel)

Jeanne Crain takes another step towards maturity in what is almost a sequel to her previous film, Margie. Here she plays a teenager who falls in love with popular band leader Dan Dailey. She flirts with him a little too much at the big concert. She follows him alone to the next town on the tour, and you have to wonder just how far she is willing to go. They end up getting married on a whim. However, life on the road is not all it's cracked up to be, and when the stock market crash cancels the tour they have to live at home with her folks. They almost break up when Dailey refuses to get a real job, even turning down a gig because it doesn't pay what he expects. You can sense that Crain is tired of these juvenile parts: she is too old for the role, bursting with a beauty that belies her character's age.

No comments:

Post a Comment