Academy Awards, USA 1949
| Nominated Oscar | Best Music, Original Song Jule Styne (music) Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
For the song "It's Magic"
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| Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture Ray Heindorf |
Warner Bros.
Directed by Michael Curtiz, Busby Berkeley
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
New York socialite Janis Paige hires nightclub singer Doris Day to impersonate her on a cruise to South America. Paige suspects her husband of fooling around with his pretty secretary, while her husband suspects she is doing the same on the cruise ship. He hires private detective Jack Carson to follow his wife on the cruise. Carson falls in love with Day, thinking she is really married; Day falls in love with him but doesn't reveal her real identity until the ending. The contrived plot is further complicated by her piano player, but his main purpose is to crack unfunny one liners. It's dated, sexist and has an overblown Busby Berkeley set piece for the big finale.
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