Coney Island (1943) Available on all-region DVD
Synopsis: Here's pert Betty
Grable at the peak of her wartime career, singing period songs like Put Your
Arms around Me, Honey and Cuddle Up a Little Closer in
gloriously garish Technicolor.
The plot's a piece of tosh about
saloon-keeper George Montgomery wanting to turn Grable into a big star, while
rival hotelier Cesar Romero wants her for himself. If the story sounds
familiar, that's because it was successfully remade by Twentieth Century-Fox
seven years later as Wabash Avenue, also with Grable.
Nevertheless,
this is vastly entertaining in its unsophisticated, mindless way, and it's
absolutely typical Betty
Cast: Betty Grable, George
Montgomery Runtime: 90 min
*Note: USA and Canadian
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