Sunday, March 11, 2018

Belle of the Yukon (1944)


Academy Awards, USA 1946

Nominee
Oscar
Best Music, Original Song
Jimmy Van Heusen (music)
Johnny Burke (lyrics)
For the song "Sleighride in July"
Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture
Arthur Lange

RKO Radio Pictures
Directed by William A. Seiter
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, MGM)

Gypsy Lee Rose and her girls arrive by steamboat in the remote Yukon for their new gig at a large, popular saloon owned by Randolph Scott. In between song and dance numbers, she fans the flames of her old romance with Scott; the saloon manager's daughter Dinah Shore gets involved with the piano player; and breaks up a scheme to rob the town of their gold dust! The Technicolor may be brilliant, but the plot, acting and songs are anything but.

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