Title: MGM, agiain, says that Judy is a
Review: Plain Jane. She isn't. She becomes a beautiful woman. 1943 was the year for her. She shines. Unfortunately, this film does not let her shine very much. The score is forgettable and Marta Eggerth has waaaaaaaayyyyy too much screen time. But she's here (Marta) and we just have to shut up and like it. I'll shut up.Van Heflin, like all the men in Judy's MGM movies, can't see that she's a beautiful woman. Is he blind? Garland is so lovely that it should make Hedy Lamarr faint. But Lamarr (who isn't in the film) doesn't faint and Garland the trouper soldiers on. Brave girl.It's not a great film, by any stretch. Even the musical numbers are rather unmemorable; nothing remarkable. But Garland succeeds nicely in the role of a show-biz wannabe.The brother with the door knob fetish is odd. And the hat. The hat! First Garland wears it. Then a black woman. Then a monkey. Horrendous.Perhaps the least inspiring Garland musical out there.
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