This is a rather dopey comedy starring Ronald Reagan, Eddie Bracken and Virginia Mayo. Reagan plays an artist known for painting pinup girls. Bracken is trying to discover WHO Reagan's model is, as she's practically perfect in every way. After repeatedly pestering Reagan, he learns that there is no one model--but that the 'girl' is made up parts of 12 different models. Later, however, Bracken discovers a girl who does embody all 12 perfect attributes (Mayo) and, oddly, instead of just approaching this beautiful lady, Reagan concocts a crazy plan. He has the silly idea of getting to know her by posing as a member of the citizenship class Mayo teaches at night---talk about contrived! In this guise, Reagan talks like a person who who knows where--as he seems about as Czech as Mickey Mouse! Also, pay attention to the beach scenes. The rear projected scenes were poorly integrated and it was obvious that these outdoor scenes were done on a sound stage. The lack of quality in these scenes (along with the writing) would seem to betray that Warner Brothers didn't particularly care about this film and just churned it out regardless. Too bad...it could have been a nice film.
It's a shame about this film, really, as Mayo and Reagan made a nice pairing and this had some of the makings of a nice romantic comedy. Too bad the plot just made no sense and was MUCH more contrived that the average comedy of the day. Overall, a highly flawed film that should have been so much better. Even a nice supporting role by Eddie Bracken wasn't enough to save this odd film. I actually think my score of 4 is a bit charitable...it almost earned a less than stellar 3.
It's a shame about this film, really, as Mayo and Reagan made a nice pairing and this had some of the makings of a nice romantic comedy. Too bad the plot just made no sense and was MUCH more contrived that the average comedy of the day. Overall, a highly flawed film that should have been so much better. Even a nice supporting role by Eddie Bracken wasn't enough to save this odd film. I actually think my score of 4 is a bit charitable...it almost earned a less than stellar 3.