Even sixty-five years ago this would probably have seemed like a tail- end example of the great late thirties and forties Fox musicals turned out by Fox and a 'resident' team including Alice Fay, Don Ameche, John Payne, Carmen Miranda, Tyrone Power and Betty Grable, who succeeded Alice Faye as Queen of the Lot and was herself succeeded by Marilyn Monroe. Watching it today the overall impression is of s popular genre running out of steam. Harold Arlen's score is lacklustre by his standards though he would turn out A Star Is Born four years later. One of the most interesting segments is the Friendly Islands number, a parody of South Pacific (then in its second year on Broadway) in which Mitzi Gaynor - in her first feature film - actually sings the words South Pacific, and would, of course, go on to play the lead in the film version one decade later. David Wayne is probably the best thing in it and certainly gets the lion's share of the laughs.

Usually I love the Fox musicals...but this one is just boring. The dancing and the songs can't save this one. And how nice to know that they actually had color TV video cameras and color TV receiver sets in 1950!!! The special effects people couldn't make the spliced-in TV images in B&W I guess???? Bad editing. And don't you just envy Betty Grable's push-down monitor. Wow, wish I had one (not). And that "baby" that the Morans illegally "adopt" (then they get her back later, still under suspicious circumstances)...and the Morans never had given "baby" a name? Unless I missed it along the boring way. Then old Miss Adoption Agency has a quick change of heart and offers them a boy. Then Betty is pregnant again after all!!!! All this makes for a very unbelievable story.

Wonderful Bette Grable and Dan Dailey fanfare dealing with a musical couple's hard luck in having their own child. They are forced to resort to adoption when a traffic accident causes the loss of her unborn child. We then see unscrupulous adoption procedures and other mayhem preventing this couple from having a child of their own.The couple do a routine on television and Dailey along with Grable show they could still sing and dance at their best. In a brief role, Mitzi Gaynor, who would play Daley's daughter 4 years later in "There's No Business Like Showbusiness," turns up as a fellow dancer who is ready to flirt and take Daley away from Gable.The wonderful is ending but we expected that. In such film predicaments, they usually do just that.

The songs and dances are wonderful! Kitty and Jack are actors so when they sing/perform there are scenery and wardrobes that go along with the songs, making it less like an ordinary "musical." The story itself is modern and realistic even for the time (like someone else mentioned some of the things they say may have been considered "risque.") If you like old movies or musicals, I recommend you find a way to see this! You'll never get these songs out of your head, and you probably wont want to either. A classic! I grew up watching this movie over and over again. I wish that I could find another copy but it seems impossible. :( If any decides to release it again, let me know!