As mish-moshes go this is right up there with the cream. Jerome Kern's more than distinguished Broadway career stuttered to a halt in 1939 with a mega-flop that lasted 59 performances. The show was called Very Warm for May and May was a girl's name rather than the month of which should tell you all you need to know. Kern took it on the Jesse Owens and spent his final six years in Hollywood.MGM had purchased the rights to Very Warm For May anticipating it would be a hit. With the rights on their hands they figured the best thing to do would be to disown it; change the title, carve it up, and get a new score. Actually the score wasn't bad, it was, after all, the work of Kern and Oscar Hammmerstein but numbers like All In Fun and In The Heart Of The Dark were completely overshadowed by the one seriously enduring number All The Things You Are. What Metro did was turn it into a vaudeville act assigning the female lead to Louis B. Mayer's girl friend Ginny Sims whose main claim to fame was getting Sinatra fired from MGM - Mayer was unseated while horseriding and Sinatra was heard to say openly 'Mayer fell of Ginny Simms'. For leading man they tapped George Murphy who, as a song-and-dance man made a good Governor. Lena Horne got to sing her usual two numbers in isolation so they could be cut in the South, Nancy Walker made the best of her one number, Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet, Charles Winninger wheeled out his retired hoofer living in the past routine and The Ross Sisters traumatized young children with their acrobatics. If this is the sort of thing you like you'll like this sort of thing.