High Hopes - Lucky Me (1954)
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- Release Date: 1954
- Runtime: 100 min
- Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Starring: Doris Day, Robert Cummings, Phil Silvers, Eddie Foy Jr. ... see all
- Director: Jack Donohue
- Plot: Candy Williams is a struggling performer in a musical troupe, headed by Hap Schneider. Unfortunately, the troupe has fallen on hard times, forcing the members to get jobs cleaning hotel... Read more
User Reviews
Backing For The Show
Jun 16, 2007
bkoganbing - imdb.com
Jun 16, 2007bkoganbing - imdb.com
For the film Lucky Me, Doris Day was reunited with composers Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster who wrote the score for Calamity Jane and gave Doris one of her biggest hits, Secret Love in one of her biggest film... Full review
This certainly WAS the first CinemaScope movie.
May 20, 2007
JETTCO48 - imdb.com
May 20, 2007JETTCO48 - imdb.com
With regard to the earlier contributor to this thread, "LUCKY ME" most certainly WAS the FIRST MUSICAL in CinemaScope to be released.Of the two examples he quotes, firstly: "How to Marry a Millionaire" was NOT a musical. Can he name... Full review
Bad Day on DVD
May 08, 2007
ptb-8 - imdb.com
May 08, 2007ptb-8 - imdb.com
I thought LUCKY ME from Warner Bros in 1954 was not the first Cinemascope musical as some comment says.. possibly the 1953 FOX musical ? HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE. Fox patented Cinemascope and hired the process to other studios.... Full review
Nothing Special
Mar 14, 2005
dencar_1 - imdb.com
Mar 14, 2005dencar_1 - imdb.com
LUCKY ME is one of those class "C" musicals of interest to those who need to compile either Doris Day credits or simply want to view the benign concerns spinning in the era's forgettable musicals. Bob Cummings just does not... Full review
The First CinemaScope Musical
Nov 25, 1998
Ralph McKnight - imdb.com
Nov 25, 1998Ralph McKnight - imdb.com
"Lucky Me" was the first musical to be shot in the then, new process, CinemaScope. It was also a picture that Doris Day, Hollywood's Golden Girl, did NOT want to make.Because of contractual obligations, she decided to do the film... Full review
Critics Reviews
| Jul 09, 2009The Miami Herald
a talent for physical comedy.....She was right about "Lucky Me....Coming out of her post-"Calamity Jane" nervous breakdown (she had terrible panic attacks), she rebelled against making the silly "Lucky Me....Consensus is just as elusive about her films..... ... Full Review
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