Directed by Lloyd Bacon
This big-screen biopic of the vaudeville superstar Eva Tanguay becomes the perfect point of departure for Jack Cole’s fervent imagination and delightfully anachronistic modern dance conceptions. Star Mitzi Gaynor and company interpret his hyper-stylized choreography to dazzling effect in numbers including “The Johnson Rag,” “Beale Street Blues” and Tanguay’s signature song, “I Don’t Care.”
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. Producer: George Jessel. Screenwriter: Walter Bullock. Based on a story by George Jessel. Cast: Mitzi Gaynor, David Wayne, Oscar Levant, Bob Graham, Craig Hill.
35mm, color, 81 min.
