THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS (1943) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: David Butler
Eddie Cantor, Denis Morgan, Joan Leslie,
Edward Everett Horton, S.Z. Sakall, Ruth Donnelly,
Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, John Garfield,
Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino Ann Sheridan,
Jack Carson, Alan Hale, Hattie McDaniel,
Dinah Shore, Spike Jones, Humphrey Bogart
An all-star wartime musical, really just a series of musical numbers strung along a flimsy plot in which Eddie Cantor plays both a look-alike double and an obnoxious version of himself. Slow going in places, but a rare chance to hear Errol Flynn, John Garfield and Bette Davis sing. (Davis, being Davis, doesn't let the fact that she's in the middle of a song prevent her from lighting a cigarette.) Dinah Shore's first movie appearance (she was a Cantor protégée), and the screen debut of Spike Jones.
