LOVELY TO LOOK AT

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CREDITS

1952, 105 minutes, Technicolor.
Producer, Jack Cummings; Director, Mervyn LeRoy (fashion show sequence directed by Vincente Minnelli); Screenplay, George Wells and Harry Ruby; Cinematography, George Folsey; Choreography, Hermes Pan; Music Director, Carmen Dragon and Saul Chaplin.

CAST

Stephanie, Kathryn Grayson; Al Marsh, Red Skelton; Tony Naylor, Howard Keel; Clarisse, Marge Champion; Jerry Ralby, Gower Champion; Bubbles Cassidy, Ann Miller; Zsa Zsa, Zsa Zsa Gabor; Max Fogelsby, Kurt Kasznar; Pierre, Marcel Dalio; Diane, Diane Cassidy.

SONGS

By Jerome Kern:
Yesterdays; The Touch Of Your Hand; Smoke Gets In Your Eyes with Otto Harbach; Lafayette with Dorothy Fields; The Most Exciting Night; You're Devastating with Fields and Harbach; Lovely To Look At with Fields and Jimmy McHugh; I Won't Dance with Fields, Harbach, McHugh and Oscar Hammerstein II; I'll Be Hard to Handle with Fields and Bernard Dougall.
Opening Night by Fields and McHugh.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

"The story involves an American comedian (Skelton) who inherits half of a Parisian dress shop, Madame Roberta's, that specializes in haute couture. He and his pals (Keel and Gower Champion) go to Paris to claim his inheritance and sell it to finance a Broadway show they wish to put on. Unfortunately, they find the shop, which is run by its co-owners, two sisters (Grayson and Marge Champion), near bankruptcy. In a burst of male chauvinism, they take over the shop to show the girls how it's done. With their show-biz know-how, the men stage a smash fashion show. . .and put the shop in the black."
- Lawrence B. Thomas, The MGM Years

NOTES

"If, musically, the film never quite reached the sublime heights attained in the earlier Astaire-Rogers version [Roberta, RKO, 1935], it was not without its good things. . ."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

". . .it is. . .pleasing to report this morning that the vehicle is a durable one and that the touch of Jerome Kern's hand is still magical."
- A.H. Weiler, The New York Times

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