Based on a popular radio show of the period. Jimmy Stewart was reunited with the director of 'Destry Rides Again' in this, the final film he completed before his war service. (He returned a changed man, with a new grace before the cameras in generally less frivolous fare, at least until the sixties.)
More like a thirties screwball comedy with songs (one of them performed by by a surprisingly substantial black contingent), with Paulette Goddard (ne Levy) as an Irish colleen living in New York.
Charles Winninger's grumpy old curmudgeon performs a similar plot function to Lionel Barrymore as the satanic Potter in Stewart's postwar return, 'It's a Wonderful Life', without of course presenting anything like as big a threat.
More like a thirties screwball comedy with songs (one of them performed by by a surprisingly substantial black contingent), with Paulette Goddard (ne Levy) as an Irish colleen living in New York.
Charles Winninger's grumpy old curmudgeon performs a similar plot function to Lionel Barrymore as the satanic Potter in Stewart's postwar return, 'It's a Wonderful Life', without of course presenting anything like as big a threat.