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Gaily, Gaily

1969, Movie, M, 117 mins

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A sentimental look backward to Chicago of 1910, based on Ben Hecht's colorful journalistic memories, this film is at first directed with care and style, then slowly erodes into mindless slapstick for a predictable Hollywood ending. Bridges, playing the young Hecht, is shown at the Galena, Illinois, Fourth of July celebration, where he is enamored of lucious Johnson, mistress of Chicago political bigwig Kennedy, who passes her off as his niece. Bridges later journeys to Chica... read more leave a comment
Year: 1969
Rated M

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Cast
Beau Bridges: Ben Harvey
Melina Mercouri: Queen Lil
Brian Keith: Francis X. Sullivan
George Kennedy: Axel P. Johanson
Hume Cronyn: "Honest" Tim Grogan
Margot Kidder: Adeline

 

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