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Diamond Horseshoe

1945, Movie, NR, 104 mins

Diamond Horseshoe: Review

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Big-budget musical extravaganza starring Grable, the girl with the "mink coat complex," as the top-draw entertainer in Gaxton's successful nightclub. Trouble starts when Gaxton's son Haymes, a medical student, falls for Grable and decides to drop out of school and become a hoofer against his father's wishes. Gaxton blames Grable for his son's career change, but she talks Haymes into resuming his studies in medicine, making everyone happy in the end. The picture is a treasure for the glimpse it gives of the nightclubs that are no more--like the Stork Club, the Copacabana, the Latin Quarter--since it was filmed mostly in one of the best of its time, the Diamond Horseshoe. For that privilege, Fox paid the owner of the club, Billy Rose, $76,000, with the proviso that his name would be used in the picture's title. Producer Buddy De Sylva paid the owner of the Stork Club, Sherman Billingsley, $100,000 for the Stork Club name the same year. Songs include: "I Wish I Knew," "The More I See You," "Welcome to the Diamond Horseshoe," "In Acapulco," "You'll Never Know," "Play Me an Old-Fashioned Melody," "A Nickel's Worth of Jive" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren), "Carrie Marry Harry" (Junie McCree, Albert von Tilzer), "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" (Beth Slater Whitson, Leo Friedman), "Sleep Baby Sleep" (S.A.Emery), "Shoo Shoo Baby" (Phil Moore), "Aba Daba Honeymoon" (Arthur Fields, Walter Donovan), "I'd Climb the Highest Mountain" (Lew Brown, Sidney Clare), and "My Melancholy Baby" (George A. Norton, Ernie Burnett). leave a comment
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