Directed by:
Nunnally JohnsonCinematography:
Milton R. KrasnerComposer:
Cyril J. MockridgeCast:
Betty Grable, Sheree North, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Tommy Noonan, Orson Bean, Fred Clark, Charlotte Austin, Alice Pearce, Tony Randall, Leslie Parrish (more)Plots(1)
Betty Grable's final film was a remake of the 1934 Bing Crosby-Miriam Hopkins musical comedy She Loves Me Not, which in turn was based on a play by Howard Lindsay. Betty and Sheree North star as a couple of striptease "artistes" who have the bad luck to witness a murder. Hoping to evade the killer, the girls hide out in a small college town, where they immediately win the hearts of the male frat brothers. One of these is overaged undergrad Robert Cummings, who falls for Betty, while Sheree settles for not-terribly-bright Orson Bean. A subplot concerns the unending get-rich-quick schemes of college president Charles Coburn. Before the story can be resolved, both Betty and Sheree are placed under hypnosis, with hilarious results. It could not have rested well with Betty Grable that Sheree North stole the show in How to Be Very, Very Popular--especially with her energetic rendition of "Shake, Rattle and Roll"--but Betty was on the verge of retiring anyway, so what the heck? (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Betty Grable
USA
Best movies:
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
Follow the Fleet (1936)
Sheree North
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
The Gypsy Moths (1969)
Charley Varrick (1973)
Robert Cummings
USA
Best movies:
Dial M for Murder (1954)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Kings Row (1942)
Charles Coburn
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Kings Row (1942)
Tommy Noonan
USA
Best movies:
Adam's Rib (1949)
The Set-Up (1949)
Born to Kill (1947)
Orson Bean
USA
Best movies:
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Innerspace (1987)
Fred Clark
USA
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
White Heat (1949)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
Charlotte Austin
USA
Best movies:
Daddy Long Legs (1955)
Desirée (1954)
Monkey Business (1952)
Alice Pearce
USA
Best movies:
On the Town (1949)
The Opposite Sex (1956)
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
Tony Randall
USA
Best movies:
Leslie Parrish
USA
Best movies:
Daddy Long Legs (1955)
The Opposite Sex (1956)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Rhys Williams
UK
Best movies:
Gentleman Jim (1942)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Julius Caesar (1953)
Andrew Tombes
USA
Best movies:
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
Texas (1941)
Emory Parnell
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
Sabrina (1954)
Jack Mather
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
Mike Lally
USA
Best movies:
The Sting (1973)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Willard Waterman
USA
Best movies:
The Apartment (1960)
Father of the Bride (1950)
Mystery Street (1950)
Minta Durfee
USA
Best movies:
An Affair to Remember (1957)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
Richard Collier
USA
Best movies:
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
The Chase (1966)
The Hangman (1959)
Barry Coe
USA
Best movies:
Peyton Place (1957)
The Bravados (1958)
D-Day the Sixth of June (1956)