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...expect anything like the stage version of "Call Me Mister," you'll be sadly disappointed. There are only a few pitiful vestiges of the revue, notably the "Going-Home Train" scene and the sketch about the Air Force's boy general. The plot concerns a G.I. in Japan (Dan Dailey) and his legally separated wife (Betty Grable.) The wife is with a female entertainment outfit called the WOOF's or WAP's or something equally non-existant. After a great deal of childness, the movie ends in a clinch while a gushing fountain gushes and revolving stages revolve...
Betty Grable is still Betty Grable, although she seems to get older every year. Dan Dailey is a big guy who is pleasant enough. He can't sing or dance, but that's no reason to pick on him. The only person who seems to know what he's doing is Danny Thomas, a comedian who happens to be funny even though he is in the same movie with the others. "Call Me Mister" is a "nothing" movie. That's an achievement of a sort...
...three songs from the 1946 Broadway hit revue that celebrated the G.I.'s exultant return to civilian life. Now that olive drab is back in style, the Technicolored cinemusical re-enlists in the Army and uses the Japanese occupation as a backdrop for songs & dances by Dan Dailey and Betty Grable, World War II's favorite pin-up girl...
Betty plays a CAT (Civilian Actress Technician), and Sergeant Dailey is a dog of a fellow who likes to collect lipstick. Between snarling and nuzzling, they help the Army put on a show in a G.I. auditorium whose elaborate stage could pass for that of Radio City Music Hall. It all falls into a tired pattern, but there are compensations: the stars' dependable footwork, a bright spoof of Air Force life, and plenty of fresh clowning by Comedian Danny Thomas...
...domestic pictures are uninspiring. The personal appearance of Danny Kaye lends class to the Technicolor version of Call Me Mister, which opened yesterday at the Roxy, Seventh and 50th. Betty Grable and Dan Dailey grace the "75,000 inch Technicolor screen" in the former Broadway success; and Yma Sumac, the Dunhill dancers, and Hill Baird's marionettes give the stage show remarkable variety...