We’re Not Dressing **** (1934, Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Leon Errol, Ethel Merman) – Classic Movie Review 12,614

Paramount Pictures’ 1934 screwball musical comedy film We’re Not Dressing stars Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns, Gracie Allen and Ethel Merman, and is based on the 1902 J M Barrie play The Admirable Crichton.

Director Norman Taurog’s 1934 Paramount Pictures black and white pre-Code screwball musical comedy film We’re Not Dressing stars Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Leon Errol, and Ethel Merman, along with Jay Henry, Ray Milland, John Irwin, Charles Morris, and Stanley Blystone. It is based on the 1902 J M Barrie play The Admirable Crichton.

We’re Not Dressing is an amusing American musical version of the J M Barrie play more familiar now in the Kenneth More 1957 film The Admirable Crichton, in which Carole Lombard plays Doris Worthington, a selfish socialite tamed by sailor Stephen Jones (Bing Crosby) when they are shipwrecked on a far-off tropical isle.

The vintage cast speaks for itself and is its own special reward. Who can complain about a film with these stars Bing Crosby and Carole Lombard, plus George Burns and Gracie Allen, and Ethel Merman too? Bing trills the hit ‘Love Thy Neighbour’, among six pleasing Mack Gordon-Harry Revel songs that also include ‘May I?’ and ‘Good Night Lovely Little Lady’.

We’re Not Dressing is easy-going and infectiously daft escapism.

It is shot at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, and Santa Catalina Island, a rocky isle off the coast of Southern California in the Gulf of Santa Catalina.

The cast are Bing Crosby as Stephen Jones, Carole Lombard as Doris Worthington, George Burns as George Martin, Gracie Allen as Gracie Martin, Ethel Merman as Edith, Leon Errol as Uncle Hubert, Ray Milland [Raymond Milland] as Prince Michael Stofani, Jay Henry as Prince Alexander Stofani, Ernie Adams as Sailor, and Stanley Blystone as Doris’s Officer.

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