When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948) DVD-R

Starring Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Jack Oakie, June Havoc, Richard Arlen, James Gleason
Directed by Walter Lang

Print: color
Runtime: 98 min.
Quality: C+
Genre: musical

Betty Grable and Dan Dailey play a couple of small-time vaudevillians, at least until Dailey
gets a big Broadway break. Success swells his head to cataclysmic dimensions; he
becomes an alcoholic, loses his stardom and winds up in the drunk ward. Grable divorces
Dailey to marry rancher Richard Arlen, but Dailey's old pal Jack Oakie tries to rehabilitate
the fallen star. Oakie's mission seems hopeless until Grable rejoins the act, and everything
is patched up...at least professionally. If the plot of When My Baby Smiles at Me seems
familiar, perhaps you've seen the previous two versions of the George Manker
Watters/Arthur Hopkins play Burlesque: The Dance of Life (1929) and Swing High, Swing
Low.