Lucky Me (1954)

Director:

Jack Donohue

Writers:

Irving Elinson (screenplay)
Robert O'Brien (screenplay)

Release Date:

28 July 1954 (France)

Genre:

Comedy | Musical | Romance

Tagline:

The fastest-paced pleasure that ever spread a wide smile across the face of the screen!

Plot:

Candy Williams is a struggling performer in a musical troupe, headed by Hap Schneider. Unfortunately...

Cast

Doris Day	...	Candy Williams
Robert Cummings	...	Dick Carson
Phil Silvers	...	Hap Schneider
Eddie Foy Jr.	...	Duke McGee
Nancy Walker	...	Flo Neely
Martha Hyer	...	Lorraine Thayer
Bill Goodwin	...	Otis Thayer
Marcel Dalio	...	Anton
Hayden Rorke	...	Tommy Arthur
James Burke	...	Mahoney

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Warnercolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.55 : 1

Sound Mix:

4-Track Stereo (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Australia:G | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | USA:Approved (PCA #16754)

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

This is the first musical to be filmed in Cinemascope.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Chorus: [sings] Lucky me! / Down the four leaf clover highway, all the signs are pointing my way. / Yes siree. / For lucky me, lucky me, yes siree. / With a lucky star to guide me, and the one I love beside me. / Life can be, so fancy free! / Don't you wish that you could be... Lucky Me!

Movie Connections:

References The Command (1954)

Soundtrack:

The Superstition Song

Bad Day on DVD

I thought LUCKY ME from Warner Bros in 1954 was not the first Cinemascope musical as some comment says.. possibly the 1953 FOX musical ? HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE. Fox patented Cinemascope and hired the process to other studios. The first WBs musical was A STAR IS BORN. But I might be wrong... anyone?

On my Australian market DVD this really silly Doris Day musical has opening credits in cinemascope and the rest of he film in ..horror of horrors! pan and scan TV presentation. On the box it says hooray for Cinemascope but the film itself is not in Cinemascope if anyone from WB DVD office bothers to check. The color and art design is terrific, the musical numbers well staged (as I could tell, as I only saw half of the image), the 50s style and modernity snazzy and Doris Day was beautiful. Its trite script is embarrassing ... a bit like any of the Columbia musicals with Jack Lemmon or Betty Grable of the same year. I was keen to enjoy but the badly presented cropping, down to TV from cinemascope ruined the experience... so I took the DVD back to the store, complained to the bemused 19 year old goth chick behind the counter and got a refund. She seemed to spark to life when I pretended to be interested in a box set of BUFFY Vampire Slayer, but I tricked her and took the money instead.