Academy Awards, USA 1951
| Nominated Oscar | Best Music, Original Song Josef Myrow (music) Mack Gordon (lyrics)
For the song "Wilhelmina"
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Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Directed by Henry Koster
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
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Betty Grable is the star attraction at a turn-of-the-century Chicago saloon. Traveling huckster Victor Mature falls in love with her and decides to make her a star. He tries blackmailing the saloon owner, an old business partner, but when that fails he resorts to cheating at cards. Meanwhile, they both try to win Grable's hand in marriage. Somehow she manages to pick between both of these losers. Occasionally colorful, such as the scenes at the Chicago World's Fair, but mostly dumb and sexist.
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