A cloying D grade musical strives too hard with too many styles and too much low class humor that it just ends up too bad for the overabundance of actors in this. I found no reason to root for burlesque star Ann Corio who gets a suspended sentence for indecency and is mandated to spend 180 days with her mother.
Of course she doesn't have a mother so one is provided for her by her agent in the form of Mary Gordon, the very active Scottish character actress best known as Mrs. Hudson in the Sherlock Holmes series. Corio is rude to her from the start, treating her like a servant, and with no transition, Gordon is suddenly her maid. Comedy relief by the team of Tim and Irene Ryan is hit or miss, mostly the later, especially when the future "Granny" tries to become Fanny Brice, singing a "daughter love" song at Corio's society wedding to the son of the judge who sentenced her, all for revenge.
Johnny Davis, best known for "Hooray For Hollywood", is over the top as the trumpet player who sings in Corio's burlesque show. Mantan Moreland provides stereotypical black humor as a singing valet. The songs aren't really memorable, and the situation absurd, accentuated by the fact that the leading character really isn't likable, and the actress playing her really no actress either.
Of course she doesn't have a mother so one is provided for her by her agent in the form of Mary Gordon, the very active Scottish character actress best known as Mrs. Hudson in the Sherlock Holmes series. Corio is rude to her from the start, treating her like a servant, and with no transition, Gordon is suddenly her maid. Comedy relief by the team of Tim and Irene Ryan is hit or miss, mostly the later, especially when the future "Granny" tries to become Fanny Brice, singing a "daughter love" song at Corio's society wedding to the son of the judge who sentenced her, all for revenge.
Johnny Davis, best known for "Hooray For Hollywood", is over the top as the trumpet player who sings in Corio's burlesque show. Mantan Moreland provides stereotypical black humor as a singing valet. The songs aren't really memorable, and the situation absurd, accentuated by the fact that the leading character really isn't likable, and the actress playing her really no actress either.