A former stage actor and a respected director of many hit Broadway
musicals - among them "The Ziegfeld Follies" - Edward Lilley came to
Hollywood to make musicals. He directed almost a dozen of them for
Universal; unfortunately, none of them approached the quality of his
Broadway productions, being mostly low-budget, somewhat slapdash
affairs featuring the likes of
The Ritz Brothers,
Bob Crosby and others on
Universal's "B" list.