MEET ME AFTER THE SHOW

US, 1951, 88 minutes, Colour.
Betty Grable, Macdonald Carey, Rory Calhoun, Eddie Albert.
Directed by Richard Sale.

Meet Me After The Show is a pleasant Betty Grable vehicle. Popular during the war and in the years afterwards, she made many enjoyable musicals at 20th. Century Fox. Here she is teamed with Macdonald Carey, Rory Calhoun at the beginning of his career appears as the usual tall handsome stranger, Eddie Albert supplies some comedy. There are many Betty Grable songs and dances. She also has the opportunity for some satire in being a star with sleazy origins in Florida and she pretends amnesia and goes back to these after her success. The writing is by Mary Loos and Richard Sale who was responsible for such entertaining musicals as Two Tickets To Tomahawk with Dan Dailey and Anne Baxter. Songs are by Jule Styne and Leo Robin. Inconsequential but with the perennial themes of the theatre, success, jealousies, marriage. An example of the 20th. Century Fox musicals of the '50s.