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Lucky Me Review.
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Even though when Doris Day marched into Jack Warner’s office to protest the script of “Lucky Me”, little did she know that her fans would love this picture and cherish it for decades.
I can understand her concern. She had just come off the great success of “Calamity Jane” which had been an Oscar winner and Day had had a tremendous hit record with “Secret Love”.
After being convinced that she should do the picture, she decided to give her performance 110% even though she was in ill health. And, what a performance it is! With able support from Phil Silvers, Nancy Walker, Martha Hyer and Eddie Foy, Jr. and a terrific co-star in Robert Cummings, she was delightful as “Candy Williams” a stranded-in-Florida showgirl with dreams of Broadway stardom.
Miss Day performed , or was involved in all of the musical numbers in the film, most notably, “Love You Dearly”, “Bluebells of Broadway”, “I Speak to the Stars” (a Day record hit) and the showstopping, “I Wanna Sing Like an Angel”.
Phil Silvers was “Sgt. Bilko” and Nancy Walker was “Ida Morgenstern” and Eddie Foy, Jr. was “Hindsey” from “Pajama Game”. In short, they were playing their most famous roles.
Doris Day’s opening number was a true star performance. Only she could get away with singing her head off, bouncing down the Miama streets singing “The Supersitition Song”. Truly great.
The film moves along nicely and has no lags, thanks to the director, Jack Donahue, who kept things bouncy. The color is bright and the actors work well together.
See this one and don’t forget the popcorn.
LUCKY ME is one of the lesser musicals which Doris Day lent her talents to. It was also one of the last films she made under her Warners contract. The score reunited her with “Calamity Jane” tunesmiths Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster.
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Day plays a young actress called Candy Williams, stuck in a second-string touring revue, ‘Parisian Pretties’. When the troupe is stranded in Miami after failing to pay a restaurant bill, Candy catches the attention of Broadway composer Dick Carson (Bob Cummings). With the usual premise of mixed identities and comic hijinks, the story bubbles away to the delight of audiences.
The score includes several gems including “The Superstition Song” (a gangbusters opening number for Doris), “High Hopes”, “The Bluebells of Broadway”, and “I Speak to the Stars”. Day shares the screen with some of the most talented musical comedy vets (Nancy Walker, Phil Silvers and Eddie Foy Jr.). A pure joy.
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The new DVD includes the vintage short “When the Talkies Were Young”, the Oscar-nominated cartoon “Sandy Claws”, plus the requisite trailer.