Featuring an ocean of songs by Cole Porter, Jimmy Van Jeusen, and Sammy Cahn, this is another musical about the entertainment business, with Bing Crosby and Donald O'Connor looking for a leading lady and getting wires crossed over Mitzi Gaynor and Zizi Jeanmaire, who dances a dream ballet to "Let's Do It" and "All Through the Night" and performs an over-the-top French-accented "I Get a Kick Out of You." Gaynor and O'Connor sing "It's De-lovely," and the quartet of stars sings "You're the Top." The only problem with the plot and the musical numbers is that they have little to nothing to do with one another, and then there's the matter of Gaynor's singing and Crosby's dancing, and then there's the believability of the romantic entanglements . . . so then, not everything goes. ---from Musicals on the Silver Screen, American Library Association, 2013
Review of Anything Goes
