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Post by Doghouse6 on Dec 13, 2017 0:35:37 GMT
I too had never seen a Deanna Durbin picture before, and I liked her just as much as you did. I’m not so sure how much I’d like her earlier musicals, but I’m going to have to check out Siodmak’s Christmas Holiday one of these days. Of the two I've now seen (and until I run down wmcclain's recommendation of It Started With Eve), I can say Can't Help Singing shows Durbin off to even better advantage. On its surface, not the sort of picture that would normally attract me, it turned out to be rather like an old west It Happened One Night, with Durbin as a senator's rebellious daughter who mounts a cross-country pursuit of the man she loves, but of whom Daddy disapproves, and which is filled out with traditional screwball elements like eccentric characters, fast-talking double-crosses and colorful players (Akim Tamiroff, Leonid Kinsky, Thomas Gomez, Ray Collins), along with the aforementioned David Bruce (who made three pictures with her) and Robert Paige. And some songs. Lush production values and sumptuous Technicolor photography of stunning locations in Utah and California make it a treat for the eye as well. |
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