Word: romero
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coney Island (Betty Grable, George Montgomery, Cesar Romero; TIME, June...
Coney Island (Betty Grable, George Montgomery, Cesar Romero; TIME, June...
Coney Island (Betty Grable, George Montgomery, Cesar Romero; TIME, June...
Green-suited Eddie Johnson (George Montgomery) is a gambler out of work. His old colleague Joe Rocco (Cesar Romero) has done better: he owns the fanciest joint in Coney and employs Kate Farley (Betty Grable) as his star entertainer. Johnson sets up a rival establishment and starts stealing Rocco's talent as well as his business. Amidst the chicanery and the fisticuffing, Miss Grable shapes a fine career for herself on Broadway and in the arms of the man who was down but never out. She has always had a gift for looking well in the fewest possible clothes...
When colorful Carmen, garbed in a florist's nightmare, is allowed to strut her Brazilian double-talk, "Springtime" sparkles. But when Romero and Payne play their gruesome twosome, the picture falters, in between, when the lovers art out to lunch or a reasonable facsimile, real entertainment fills the bill...