Truly one of the most tedious musicals I've ever seen, a bunch of nonsense made at Republic concerning an old southern family needing the money so it allows Broadway playwrights to create a show about an ancestor who at one point was a famous songwriter. Elisabeth Risdon plays the stern matriarch of the family who disapproves of the method they want to use to put the show on, and daughter Jane Farrar tries to get her to change her mind, having discovered a family diary.
Risdon, one of my favorite character actresses of the 40's, is the only decent element of this film which stars Shirley Ross, Barton Hepburn, Roger Clark and Cheryl Walker ("Stage Door Canteen") as the visiting stage personnel and Lillian Randolph as Risdon's maid, always smiling and always offering hopeful advice, and unfortunately, always cliched and filled with trite stereotypes. The musical numbers which focus on ballet are yawn inducing. The worst element about this film is the pacing which there seems to be none of.
Risdon, one of my favorite character actresses of the 40's, is the only decent element of this film which stars Shirley Ross, Barton Hepburn, Roger Clark and Cheryl Walker ("Stage Door Canteen") as the visiting stage personnel and Lillian Randolph as Risdon's maid, always smiling and always offering hopeful advice, and unfortunately, always cliched and filled with trite stereotypes. The musical numbers which focus on ballet are yawn inducing. The worst element about this film is the pacing which there seems to be none of.