My Dream Is Yours *** (1949, Jack Carson, Doris Day, Lee Bowman, Adolphe Menjou, Eve Arden, S Z Sakall) – Classic Movie Review 7688

Director Michael Curtiz’s 1949 musical comedy My Dream Is Yours finds Doris Day on vivacious form as single mother Martha Gibson, a band singer struggling to become a radio star, and Jack Carson bright and breezy as Doug Blake, a talent scout out to help her in her quest for fame and replace conceited singer Gary Mitchell (Lee Bowman) who has refuse to renew his radio contract.

Warner Bros’ handsomely produced Technicolor remake of their 1934 movie Twenty Million Sweethearts (with Pat O’Brien, Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers), may lack the original’s vigour, but easily makes up for it with some lively interpretations of such vintage songs as ‘I’ll String Along Without You’ and ‘My Dream Is Yours’, ‘Jeepers Creepers’ and ‘With Plenty of Money and You’ and an animated dream sequence featuring a frisky Bugs Bunny.

The screenplay by Harry Kurnitz, Dane Lussier, Allen Rivkin and Laura Kerr is based on the story Hot Air by Jerry Wald and Paul Moss. It co-stars Adolphe Menjou, Eve Arden, and S Z Sakall.

Also in the cast are Selena Royle, Edgar Kennedy, Sheldon Leonard, Franklin Pangborn, John Berkes, Ada Leonard, Frankie Carle, Ross Wesson, Don Brodie and Chester Clute.

It is the final film for Edgar Kennedy, who died in 1948.

Michael Curtiz and Doris Day worked together again on the 1951 musical biopic I’ll See You in My Dreams.

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