| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color Cedric Gibbons Daniel B. Cathcart Edwin B. Willis Jacques Mersereau |
| Best Cinematography, Color George J. Folsey | |||
| Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture Herbert Stothart | |||
MGM
Directed by George Sidney
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Army brat Kathryn Grayson follows her dad to training camp where she falls in love with private Gene Kelly. The Colonel doesn't like to see his daughter taking up with a private with discipline problems, but leaves it up to his wife to try to talk Kathryn out of it. The plot comes to a standstill for a long variety show featuring MGM stars singing and dancing. Some of the sketches work, such as Eleanor Powell's dancing, but just as many flop, such as Red Skelton's drug store bit. The early war propaganda can be a bit hard to swallow, such as Kathryn's final number singing about the United Nations, but they certainly all work hard to entertain us.
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