SOMEBODY LOVES ME
(Paramount) {OLLYWOOD has turned out some quite presentable musical films of late, but this is not one of them. I am impelled to that conclusion by an ineradicable conviction that Miss Betty Hutton is no more musical than an alarm-clock. 1 admired her gymnastics in The Greatest Show on Earth, and I have heard and enjoyed her in comic numbers where the melody. was made for maltreatment, but in Somebody Loves Me she has little scope for comedy and rather less to show her muscletone. It purports to be the more or less real-life story of two popular entertainers, Blossom Seeley and Benny Fields who married and flourished in the States a generation or more ago. Stage life for
Blossom apparently began at ‘forte (when the San Francisco earthquake interrupted a cabaret turn she was giving) and if Miss Hutton’s portrayal is at all accurate it went on from that point in a steady crescendo, As the young man who fell for her beaux yeux and bel canto, Ralph Meeker has a somewhat unsympathetic role which he is quite incapable of handling effectively. As a, picture of life backstage and. before the
footlights, Somebody Loves Me verged I thought,.on the depressing. I could feel infatuation in the. air, but could not avoid the suspicion that Nobody really loved Anybody.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 729, 3 July 1953, Page 16
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222SOMEBODY LOVES ME New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 729, 3 July 1953, Page 16
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