This movie is based on a nitwit premise and insults both the yellow and the African races. Eddie Anderson's wise guy persona, developed with Jack Benny, is absent here. But when Powell dances we move into a different medium. Her impersonation of Bojangles is superb. Gracie's performance is a whining distraction, particularly since she and George are apart for most of the film.They get one semi-redeeming sequence together at the end. Somewhere, someone must have put together Eleanor Powell's dance performances, including the only one she did with Fred Astaire in 1940, so that we can avoid the triteness and irrelevance of so many of her vehicles.
