GIRL RUSH

US, 1955, 85 minutes, Colour.
Rosalind Russell, Eddie Albert, Fernando Lamas, Gloria de Haven.
Directed by Robert Pirosh.

Girl Rush is a brief entertainment piece of fluff - a star vehicle for Rosalind Russell (although ageing, she is able to belt out a song and kick a heel!) She was soon to make Auntie Mame and later Gypsy. She received genial support from Fernando Lamas and Eddie Albert who has a chance to sing. Gloria de Haven provides some glamour. The atmosphere is Las Vegas - gambling and shows. There is a battle of the sexes and some comedy touches. An example of Paramount Studio's attempts to use the new colourful Vistavision process in the mid-'50s.

1. Entertainment? Gambling, comedy, music? A good example of its kind?

2. Colour photography, the atmosphere of Las Vegas and its surroundings? Sets? Decor and costumes? Choreography? The musical score and the songs?

3. The stereotypes for this kind of comedy: the gambling types, the brassy heroine, the suave gambler, the ingenuous businessman, the dumb starlet etc.? How well were they characterised? Stereotype situations - nevertheless enjoyable?

4. The plausibility of the plot: the background of K1m and her growing up with the gambling father, his inheritance, his friend losing it in gambling? Her taking over the hotel, her making mistakes and pushing people around? Falling in love? Plots and schemes? The sorting out of tangled issues? A comic aunt? A pleasant blend of contrivance?

5. Kim and her background, as a little girl growing up, devotion to her father, what she inherited from him? Her work in the museum and her boredom? Her absent-minded aunt? The news from Las Vegas? Persuading her aunt to go? Her mistake about her property, her contact with the hero, watching the show, giving advice to the chorus? Discovering the truth? The song and dance routines with the dancers? The return to New York? The complications with the hotel heir making deals? Horse-riding, misunderstandings with the starlet? Her feeling defeated? Stepping in and being the star of the show, the wedding? Rosalind Russell and this type of forward heroine?

6. Fernando Lamas as suave gambler? His ploys with Kim? Deals? Starlet? Getting lost on the riding journey? The happy ending?

7. Eddie Albert as the ingenuous wealthy heir? Song and dance routines? Attraction for Kim? The starlet? His being under his father's thumb and self-assertion?

8. Gloria de Haven and her glamour, singing and dancing, advice from her brother, the happy ending for her?

9. The comedy with Kim's aunt and her adapting to Las Vegas? James Gleason as her father's partner and his inevitable gambling? The starlet's brother and advice?

10. The ordinary comedy routines, the snappy dialogue, song and dance? Las Vegas Americana and entertainment?