Deanna plays a sweet girl from a small town who moves to the big city, where she lands a job as an usher in a big movie palace.Among her new city friends are hopeless romantic lawyer (Tom Drake) and restaurant guru William Bendix.
In a funny scene, Deanna crashes a big party and poses as a Latina, stumbling around, chomping on celery and botching Spanish.
By accident, she manages to sing a beautiful rendition of "Grenada", and naturally, impresses everyone, including the organizer of the party, wealthy corporate executive Adolphe Menjou, who offers her a job in a musical show.
But before she achieves success (or romance), the main characters all get mixed up in several crazy screwball situations.
In a cameo, Franklin Pangborn plays a barber who reluctantly shaves off Tom Drake's beard.
This is loose remake of The Good Fairy, the 1935 was written by Preston Sturges, who gets a credit for this film.
There are a number of differences between this and the classic 1935 MGM version with Margaret Sullivan and Frank Morgan.
This looks really cute! I'll definitely have to check it out. I've only seen one Deanna Durbin film and I'd really to see more of her. This one looks great. Great post!
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