Robert Lewis

I wouldn't want my critical friends to know I love this movie. I just watch it over and over when nobody is looking. I like Dick Powell, pretty much, in his musical days and Dick Powell is what Dick Powell always is in this movie. Frank McHugh is just as irritating as usual. Dorothy Dare is cute and I think John Halliday is just as likable as usual. It is Josephine Hutchinson who played supporting roles as somebody's mother in every other move I ever saw her in, except North by Northwest, that interests me. I wouldn't have picked her for this part in a million years, but she does something with it that mesmerizes me, I guess. First, she is young. I'm not used to seeing her young. She shifts from rich girl to poor girl, from lover to girlish daughter with a certain deftness. She is not beautiful but she somehow manages to make herself so.