Academy Awards, USA 1948
| Nominated Oscar | Best Music, Original Song Frank Loesser
For the song "I Wish I Didn't Love You So".
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Paramount Pictures
Directed by George Marshall
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(YouTube)
Betty Hutton stars as Pearl White, who rose from working class seamstress to become a silent film actress famous for her outrageous stunts in serials. Unfortunately, it's entirely made up. Still, it's a lot of fun, with Hutton singing and dancing her way from a traveling theater troupe to the movies. She falls for the leader of the troupe but their romance takes awhile to get going. The plot takes a few too many melodramatic turns, but the recreation of the early days of the silents keeps it interesting.
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