Details

Release year: 1942

Storyline

Four struggling musicians lose their vocalist at the insistence of her gangster boyfriend. They find a replacement in an innocent young woman being courted by a cabbie pretending to be a king.

Top credits

Directors

Jack Hively

Writers

Cast

Ray Bolger — Nifty Sullivan
Anne Shirley — Karanina 'Nina' Novak
June Havoc — Opal
Desi Arnaz — Steve Sarto, King Stephan VIII of Aregal

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Did you know

• The first starring film role of June Havoc, sister of Gypsy Rose Lee.

• Desi Arnaz's autobiography suggests that the director of this film, Jack Hively, was a complete idiot who knew nothing about directing despite the fact that he was an editor before he took the job. Hively - despite not being mentioned by name in the book - would reportedly embarrass actors and put them through several long takes of the same monologues from the same angle knowing that there would have to be cuts to other angles made at some point.

• Bolger's dance along several city blocks, interacting with pedestrians and shopkeepers, has been imitated in other movies, notably by Bobby Van in "Small Town Girl" and Doris Day in "Lucky Me."