Academy Awards, USA 1948
| Nominee Oscar | Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture Ray Heindorf Max Steiner |
Warner Bros.
Directed by David Butler
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)
Dennis Morgan plays Irish-American singer Chauncey Olcott in a fictionalized biography. He leaves the farm, and his dear old mom, to pursue a career as a singer on Broadway. He makes money singing at weddings and what-not, eventually earning enough money to buy a job as a bartender in a swanky hotel, hoping to get recognized by a traveling musical troupe. It works, and he is soon touring around the country with them. Unsatisfied, he conspires to meet another famous Irish singer, William Scanlan (played by William Frawley!), and become his understudy. The aging Scanlan soon loses his voice giving Olcott the break he needs to become famous. Redheaded beauty Arlene Dahl is the romantic interest. Good songs, but strictly by-the-numbers plot.
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