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30/08/1940 Drama, Comedy, Romance 1h 30m
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Heartbreak Behind Gayety of a Girly-Girl Show!

Overview

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.

  1. Dorothy Arzner

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Maureen O'Hara

    Judy

  2. Louis Hayward

    Jimmy Harris

  3. Lucille Ball

    Bubbles

  4. Virginia Field

    Elinor Harris

  5. Ralph Bellamy

    Steve Adams

  6. Maria Ouspenskaya

    Madame Basilova

  7. Mary Carlisle

    Sally

  8. Katharine Alexander

    Miss Olmstead

  9. Edward Brophy

    Dwarfie

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Reviews

A review by talisencrw
Written by talisencrw on 2016-05-17
A really fun film that I found in my Maureen O'Hara TCM 4-pack that I highly recommend if you enjoy films from that era. I like the two films I've seen so far from Arzner, who was one of the earliest and most successful of female directors and I believe the first openly lesbian one--the other work I've seen of hers is the great pre-Code look at alcoholism, 'Merrily We Go to Hell'.

This is great if you either like musicals from the era, are a Maureen O'Hara or Lucille Ball enthusiast (holy, she was unbelievably a knockout in her early filmic days!) or are simply curious about the works of ea...read the rest
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