THANK AND COUNT
Added 7/4/2008
THANK & COUNT YOUR LUCKY STARS. tHIS MOVIE IS SUPERB AND VERY AMUSING WITH STARS OF YESTERYEAR.
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Hillarious Movie Inside Making a Movie by a Host of Great Actors
Added 3/29/2008
This comedy with a long list of famous acting legends was made to profit actors' charity to WWII efforts.
Bette Davis makes her 1940's appearance as "thee" great actor of the era. Most of the performers are doing activities that they are not famous for! So Bette Davis' obvious well-built-up and deserved cameo performance involves her singing and dancing! Anyone who knows Bette Davis vita of film performances is sure to be aware that she didn't do musicals! However, her number is "Their Either Too Young or Too Old," and she's performing it directly to the service members who are overseas in WWII, it is a classic performance which she pulls off quite well.
The whole movie is pure entertainment, hilarious, and also includes stars like a young and beautiful Dinah Shore singing several songs which she was famous for doing. Eddie Cantor is a key figure in this production. If at all possible to own it in mint condition this one is a piece of US citizens' war efforts of WWII history.
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Cavalcade of Stars
Added 11/19/2006
Here is another wartime film, a light story with plenty of stars and plenty of musical distractions. Eddie Cantor plays two men- himself and a cabby named Joe. Joe hated Eddie Cantor and is miffed to no end that people always tell him he looks like the comedian. However, his appearance comes in handy when his friends get in a jam. Tony (Dennis Morgan) is a singer who can't wait for his big break and Pat (Joan Leslie) is a songwriter who will do anything to have people listen to "Moon Dust." They plan a switcheroo between Cantor and Joe so that Joe can throw his weight around at a big show filled with stars like John Garfield, Dinah Shore, Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino, etc. and speaking of look-alikes, Spike Jones makes an appearance, and he's a dead-ringer for James Cagney. Further, Leslie does several impressions of stars throughout the film.
Of course, it is sort of annoying how long the film is, but if you enjoy seeing these stars singing and dancing, most of them which are not known for musical talent, this will not be a problem. It is fun enough to hold your attention and if the musical numbers aren't your thing, then you can just fast forward through them; none are essential to the story.
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Cornball Comedy
Added 5/15/2006
When I was a teenager (and that was QUITE a while ago) I had a goal to see all of Humphrey Bogart's films. I decided that there should be no exceptions; if it was on his fimography, I had to see it. For some reason, I have yet to see "Sirocco" but the other remaining 15 movies are an otherwise mishmash of supporting roles in movies that might not even be available anymore. The list WAS 16 until I saw "Thank Your Lucky Stars" last night. I'm not sure I'm thankful for having watched the whole 2 hours+ just to see 30 seconds of Bogart in a cameo appearance. I knew it would just be a cameo appearance but I didn't realize how limited the rest of the movie would be. The story focuses on three characters; Eddie Cantor (in a dual role), Dennis Morgan, and Joan Leslie who are trying to get a break into Hollywood stardom by crashing an all-star revue. The movie spends WAY too much time on their antics. I'm sure that this would have been a better 90 minute film than the overly long movie it was. As for the stars; I actually got a kick out of Olivia de Havilland, George Tobias and Ida Lupino cutting lose on a song and dance. I thought Dinah Shore was crippled with two sub-par songs to sing. I enjoyed the duet of Jack Carson and Alan Hale (although I never figured out why they had strings attaching their hats to their coats). Their Vaudevillian talents were obvious but the song was a bit of a dud. Errol Flynn did well in an Irish drinking song although he admits later in the movie that his voice was dubbed. Bette Davis sang the one good song in the show, "They're Either too Young or too Old" and did reasonably well with it. Was that her dancing? The others were OK as well but the songs (with the one exception) have all been long forgotten. The bright side of the film (aside from the several aforementioned stage acts) was the performance of Edward Everett Horton and S. Z. "Cuddles" Sakall. The performance of Sakall was the highlight of the movie. His quick delivery of fractured English was so good that I kept asking myself, "What did he just say?". Since I had taped the movie, I was tempted to replay some of this but then I thought, No, let's just get this one over with."
Ironically, Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson were in the other Bogart cameo appearrance movie; "Two Guys from Milwaukee". That one was rather flat as well but better than "Thank Your Lucky Stars". As the film came to a close, I recognized the big stage scene from a picture in Kenneth Anger's bizarre book, "Hollywood Babylon". This film was a letdown but I don't think it meritted THAT kind of imagery.
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
Added 12/17/2005
When Eddie Cantor gets involved in setting up a celebrity wartime revue for troops at home and abroad, the hilarious results are spectacular. See the Warner Brothers roster of all-star talent as you've never seen them before!
Errol Flynn performing "That's What You Jolly Well Get", John Garfield singing "Blues in the Night" and Bette Davis lamenting "They're Either Too Young Or Too Old" are just three of the priceless gems in this delightful collection.
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