She's Back On Broadway

1953, Movie, NR, 95 mins

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Mayo plays a failing movie star (at the ripe age of 27) who wants to get her career back in motion via a Broadway play. This sets the stage for the usual type of backstage happening. Cochran plays the director of the play. He's also Mayo's former lover from whom she took a walk several years earlier. By the end of the film the two are back in each other's arms, despite the efforts of dancer Wymore to make claim to Cochran. Wymore, the third--and final--wife of Errol Flynn, delivered the actor's youngest daughter, Arnella Roma Flynn, the year of this picture's release. She retired from the screen for six years following this picture to care for both her child and the aging, ill actor, resuming her career after his death in 1959. Although the characters are of interest, with the cast members doing their bits well, too many situations are left unexplained or unmotivated, making for shaky going. Songs include: "I'll Take You as You Are", "One Step Ahead of Everybody," "The Ties That Bind," "Breakfast in Bed," "Behind the Mask" (Bob Hilliard, Carl Sigman), and the oldie, "I Think You're Wonderful." leave a comment
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