“ She’s Working Her Way Through College” –Musical #395 He’s thrown off campus and is only allowed to come back if he enrolls as a cadet. Coming from a show business background, Bixby has a hard time understanding the cadets and their schedules. Bixby is persuaded by a producer to help put on an all-male show at West Point Military Academy because the producer wants his nephew, Tom (MacRae) to leave the Academy and come perform on Broadway. Gambling prevents him from getting a good show and from marrying his sweetheart Eve (Mayo). Starring: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Gordon MacRae, Doris Day, Gene Nelson, Alan Hale Jr., Roland Winters, Jerome Cowanīroadway director Bix Bixby (Cagney) is down on his luck because he has a problem with betting on horse races. This week’s musical: The West Point Story (1950) – Musical #336 To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals.
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In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. I honestly was surprised at how much fun this film ended up being.Ĭheck out the Comet Over Hollywood Facebook page, follow on Twitter at or e-mail at no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. The film had some great snappy songs, especially performed by Freddie Slack and his Orchestra. I’m not certain of her appeal, but I also liked when she was on screen.ĭooley Wilson also co-stars and has the opportunity to sing a few songs. I almost think the film may have be more fun if it had been centered around McGuire. Judging by the photos and how the film started, I thought this musical would be about Marcy McGuire’s character, but she’s really just there to supply the music and some comedic antics. His pals try to help out by also dating the girls. The film follows a Merchant Marine (Gordon Oliver) who got himself engaged to too many girls and it complicates his shore leave. We see Dorothy Malone in an uncredited role playing the piano in an all girl’s band, Lawrence Tierney as an uncredited Merchant Marine, and Virginia Mayo in a credited role (and main character) though still early in her career. The first few moments of the film are like “who’s who” early in their careers in Hollywood. Not to be confused with Seven Days’ Leave (1942), this low budget B-musical was surprisingly better than I expected. “Improvisation in B Flat” performed by Freddie Slack and his Orchestra Chorus girls perform “Seven Days Ashore”.“The Poor Little Fly on the Wall” performed by Freddie Slack and his Orchestra.“Over the Waves” performed by Marcy McGuire.“Jive Samba” performed by Freddy Slack and his Orchestra and Marcy McGuire.
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