Ain’t Misbehavin’ *** (1955, Rory Calhoun, Piper Laurie, Jack Carson, Mamie Van Doren, Reginald Gardiner, Barbara Britton) – Classic Movie Review 13,455

The frothy 1955 Technicolor musical film Ain’t Misbehavin’ stars Rory Calhoun, Piper Laurie, Jack Carson and Mamie Van Doren.

Director Edward Buzzell’s 1955 Universal-International Technicolor musical film Ain’t Misbehavin’ stars Rory Calhoun, Piper Laurie, Jack Carson, Mamie Van Doren, Reginald Gardiner, and Barbara Britton.

It’s that old My Fair Lady story again – rich older Kenneth (Rory Calhoun) weds young club chorus gal Sarah (Piper Laurie) who wants to improve herself, fit in with the rich ladies and rise triumphantly in society – and another musical too. But now another plot kicks in, the one of the title: her new husband thinks she is misbehaving with another man.

Calhoun is a bit of a drawback (he is no Rex Harrison) but sexy young Piper Laurie, Mamie Van Doren and Barbara Britton are bubbly in this frothy sundae of a movie, making a script success of mixing the two plotlines. Actually all the leading men are quite dull: Rory Calhoun, Jack Carson and Reginald Gardiner. Ain’t that a shame.

The nice tunes include ‘A Little Love Can Go a Long Way’, ‘The Dixie Mambo’,  ‘I Love That Rickey Tickey Tickey’ and of course the Fats Waller title number.

Release date: July 1, 1955 (New York City).

The cast

The cast are Rory Calhoun as Kenneth Post, Piper Laurie as Sarah Bernhardt Hatfield, Jack Carson as Hal North, Mamie Van Doren as Jackie, Reginald Gardiner as Anatole Piermont Rogers, Barbara Britton as Pat Beaton, Dani Crayne as Millie, Carl Post, Roger Etienne, Harris Brown, and George Givot.

Ain’t Misbehavin’ is directed by Edward Buzzell, runs 82 minutes, is made by Universal-International, is released by Universal Pictures, is written by Edward Buzzell, Philip Rapp and Devery Freeman, from a story by Robert Carson, is shot in Technicolor by Wilfrid M Cline, is produced by Samuel Marx, is scored by Henry Mancini (uncredited), Frank Skinner (additional music, uncredited) and Joseph Gershenson (music supervisor), is designed by Alexander Golitzen and Alfred Sweeney, and is choreographed by Kenny Williams and Lee Scott.

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