Celeste Holm (Doris) fancies herself as a singer and decides that she is good enough to hold a recital. Her husband Paul Douglas (Leonard) humours her and arranges a sell-out one-night performance at a Town Hall filled with friends who all compliment her mediocre performance. She gets carried away by her greatness and decides to go on tour, but professional soprano Linda Darnell (Cecil Carver) has heard her performance and tells husband Douglas that Holm will never make a career out of her singing. By fluke, Darnell hears Douglas sing, and he has a powerful voice that shatters glass and is what she is looking for coz she fancies him. She coaches him behind Holm's back and one night Douglas sings infront of Holm at a party and it is at this point that the film, already far-fetched, becomes ludicrous as Celeste Holm's character is revealed as thoroughly nasty. Instead of supporting her husband, she waits to attack him at home with a golf club - she swings it at his head! What a bitch. And then tells him to get out. He goes off on a bender and tours with Darnell until he gets a chance in an opera which he messes up and everyone is happy again.
How completely stupid. Celeste Holm is a cow in this film and Paul Douglas plays a bit of a moron who should have jumped at the chance of hooking up with Darnell. The sequence at the final opera could have been so much funnier if Douglas was allowed more stage time to sing across everyone else while drunk, but they went for slapstick instead. Shame.
The film is OK while you watch it - it gets a bit boring, though.
How completely stupid. Celeste Holm is a cow in this film and Paul Douglas plays a bit of a moron who should have jumped at the chance of hooking up with Darnell. The sequence at the final opera could have been so much funnier if Douglas was allowed more stage time to sing across everyone else while drunk, but they went for slapstick instead. Shame.
The film is OK while you watch it - it gets a bit boring, though.