I'm really in the dark about this picture.
William Powell must have been in his dotage to have accepted the role of the conceited has-been actor in this disappointing 1949 film. After a terrific success three years before with Lucille Ball and Clifton Webb in "The Dark Corner," why did Mark Stevens get the part of the Hollywood hot-shot who really was that at all? As for Betsy Drake, this girl is plain awful in her singing and dancing routine. That's the ending number of this abysmal movie.
There were certain things that were rushed here such as her screen test and when they're trying to convey that her father in the movie is Powell. Did he really realize that Drake was his daughter during their first encounter?
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