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Lucky Me

2 Ratings: 1.0

A movie directed by Jack Donohue

Doris Day was nearing the end of her incredibly hard-working Warner Bros. contract when she madeLucky Me, a lighter-than-air confection with a showbiz backdrop. Doris is part of a shoestring song-and-dance troupe, marooned in a Miami hotel after defaulting … see full wiki

Tags: Movies, Comedy Movies, Musicals, Classic Movies, 1950s Movies, Doris Day

Cast: Doris Day, Robert Cummings, Phil Silvers, Nancy Walker, Eddie Foy Jr.

Director: Jack Donohue

Genre: Comedy

Release Date: 1955

MPAA Rating: Unrated

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Here's your "Lucky" Day!

Jun 8, 2000

by Byron_Kolln
posted in Movie Hype

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LUCKY ME is one of the lesser musicals which Doris Day lent her talents to. It was also one of the last films she made under her Warners contract. The score reunited her with "Calamity Jane" tunesmiths Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster.

Day plays a young actress called Candy Williams, stuck in a second-string touring revue, 'Parisian Pretties'. When the troupe is stranded in Miami after failing to pay a restaurant bill, Candy catches the attention of Broadway composer Dick Carson (Bob Cummings). With the usual premise of mixed identities and comic hijinks, the story bubbles away to the delight of audiences.

The score includes several gems including "The Superstition Song" (a gangbusters opening number for Doris), "High Hopes", "The Bluebells of Broadway", and "I Speak to the Stars". Day shares the screen with some of the most talented musical comedy vets (Nancy Walker, Phil Silvers and Eddie Foy Jr.). A pure joy.

The new DVD includes the vintage short "When the Talkies Were Young", the Oscar-nominated cartoon "Sandy Claws", plus the requisite trailer.

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