4/10
Time for some pistachio ice-cream
8 June 2011
Ginger Rogers (Janie) has a steady boyfriend in salesman George Murphy (Tom). He's a salesman that loves his job of ripping people off. This personality type still exists today and we sometimes use the collective noun "arsehole" to describe these people. He proposes to her and she accepts. However, she meets Burgess Meredith (Harry) and goes on a date with him thinking that he is rich. He isn't but she also manages to become engaged once more. She's now engaged to 2 men - what is she to do? Well, she goes and gets herself engaged to a 3rd man of course - Alan Marshal (Dick). He's a millionaire and a bit dull if you ask me. Anyway, Ginger Rogers now has to come to a decision and pick one of these three contenders.......who will it be...?

Unfortunately, this film is boring. There are flashes of humour, eg, the scene building up to the point where Murphy drops Meredith and Rogers off at a 'Lover's Lane' having just discovered that he's being cheated on, and the occasional line of dialogue as delivered by Meredith and Marshall is quite funny, eg, Meredith displaying complete joy at losing his job. Another amusing moment occurs when Meredith discovers that although a car that he is looking at is priced at $598, it will actually cost him $1,107 if he wants to buy it. Nothing different to today's deals then.

The cast are OK but we get an irritating Phil Silvers (Phil) as an ice-cream seller who proudly plays his obnoxious self and Lenore Lonergan (Butch) who plays Ginger's younger sister in that typically unfunny 'younger sister knows best' style of comedy.

You will want to know who Ginger picks so there is a slight degree of tension to the ending and it ends well. However, most of the story is just blurb and uninteresting with annoying dream-like segments that drag on.
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