Review of Good News

Good News (1947)
7/10
Good News-Ode to Non-Academics ***
7 March 2013
Warning: Spoilers
Campus fanfare in the l920s with Peter Lawford, the captain of the football team, a campus heart-throb, needing to pass his French exam so that he can play in the football game. Of course, June Allyson is called in to tutor him, the same girl he broke a prom date with so that he could escort the new girl on campus, a snob-seeking status girl, only interested in money.

I just love these so called college musicals where academics is never really the focus, but rather good old fashion fun.

What makes this film a delight is the singing and dancing. While Lawford's voice could have been better, he does fairly well nonetheless. Allyson, who was 30 at the time the movie was made, looks like a college co-ed all the way.

Mel Torme has his moments as a college student as well.
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