It's a Great Feeling (1949)

User Rating:

6.0/10   

Director:

David Butler

Writers:

Jack Rose (screenplay) and
Melville Shavelson (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

1 August 1949 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break...

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman | Film Making | Studio | Hollywood

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar.

Cast

Dennis Morgan	...	Himself
Doris Day	...	Judy Adams
Jack Carson	...	Himself
Bill Goodwin	...	Arthur Trent
Irving Bacon	...	RR Information Clerk
Claire Carleton	...	Grace
Mazzone-Abbott Dancers	...	Dancers (as The Famous Mazzone-Abbott Dancers)

Runtime:

85 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Australia:G | Finland:S

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

Joan Crawford does a cameo and directs a short speech to Jack Carson before slapping his face. It's the same one she gives to 'Ann Blythe' in Mildred Pierce (1945) before slapping her face. Jack Carson was also a star in that film with Joan.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Mademoiselle Fifi (1944)

Soundtrack:

Hooray for Hollywood

Gurkey's Corners Is the Place for Me

Poor Doris Day, working in the Warner Brothers studio commissary hoping for her big break in films. It might be coming due to the fact that no director wants to work with Jack Carson any more. So Carson gets the idea he's going to direct the next film he does with Dennis Morgan. And since no leading lady wants to work with him, the team needs a fresh face.

Morgan and Carson did a series of films at Warner Brothers who were trying to create a Crosby-Hope tandem of their own. They were good,but not as good. It really helped Bing and Bob to have two of the top rated radio shows in the country where every week you could guarantee that the two of them would have a jab or two at the other's expense. And they guested on each other's show innumerable times. This provided a built in publicity machine that Morgan and Carson couldn't possibly compete with.

This was the last of their films as a team and Warners did something here that Paramount couldn't do for Bing and Bob. That was have the boys play themselves and try to get a leading lady. At Paramount that job was sewed up by Dorothy Lamour.

Dennis Morgan had a pleasing Irish tenor voice. Unfortunately Warners also didn't do as well by him as Paramount did by Crosby in the way of songs. If you can remember any of the songs from any of the Morgan- Carson films, God Bless You. The ones that Bing sang made it to the top of the charts.

That being said, Morgan and Carson were fine performers in their own right and the film is a nice piece of nostalgia seeing all the cameo appearances by various stars working at Warner Brothers at the time. All the Crosby-Hope monkeyshines are done well by them.

Try as they may, Doris Day gets fed up and just wants to go back to Gurkey's Corners, Wisconsin and marry fiancée Jeffrey Bushdinkel.

But you got to watch the movie to learn about Jeffrey Bushdinkel.