George Cukor directed one of the all-time great musicals in the Best (Judy Garland) version by far of A Star Is Born and Cole Porter was one of the all-time great songwriters so together they should have turned out a masterpiece. Helas! Hard to say what went wrong. None of the Porter Broadway shows that were adapted for the screen really worked and that includes two versions of Anything Goes, Dubarry Was A Lady, Panama Hattie, Let's Face It, Kiss Me Kate, Can Can and Silk Stockings. The latter was released the same year as Les Girls and had they waited for Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse to wind up Silk Stockings, deep- sixed Kelly and Elg Les Girls might have given Porter a more successful swan song - he did, in fact, pen one final score, the made-for-TV musical Aladdin the following year. With only five songs it weighs in with four less than the previous years' masterpiece High Society, written directly for the screen, and even one of those, Ca, C'est L'Amour was a recycling of C'est Magnifique from Can Can. Anything Cole Porter wrote is worth hearing but this remains a disappointment.
Review of Les Girls
