Two Tickets to Broadway

[Elphaba]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 5:16pm

my partner taped this film, and we watched it last night.
Am I crazy in thinking that the ONLY redeeming part of the film is Ann Miller?

God, is this a horrible film...bad acting, bad songs, and the crazy (NOT funny) bickering between the deli owners.......

and the worst.....my partner LOVES it.......somebody help me
No wait, the worst is Janet Leigh doing musical comedy.......I just hate her in this movie....ARRGH!


Personally supervised by Howard R. Hughes, the RKO Technicolor musical Two Tickets to Broadway stars Janet Leigh as a small-town girl who hopes to make it big in the Big Apple. Moving into a Manhattan boarding house populated by such showbiz hopefuls as Ann Miller, Tony Martin, Gloria De Haven and Barbara Lawrence, Leigh aspires to appear on the popular TV variety program hosted by bandleader Bob Crosby. Two-bit agent Eddie Bracken promises to make her dreams come true, even though he doesn't know Crosby from Adam. Along the way, Leigh falls for Martin, though the course of true love seldom runs smooth--in fact, at one point it threatens to run all the way back to Leigh's home town. Injecting their time-honored routines into the proceedings are veteran vaudevillians Joe Smith and Charlie Dale, playing a couple of stagestruck deli owners (their roles were originally slated for Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, but Laurel's illness precluded any film work). Despite the creative input of choreographer Busby Berkeley, the film's best number is the simplest: Let's Make Comparisons, wherein Bob Crosby explains why he's not his brother Bing. Seemingly a surefire box-office hit, Two Tickets to Broadway inexplicably posted a loss of $1,150,000. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

[Tenorific2]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 7:26pm

I actually own this movie. Ann Miller is her usual sassy self, and I thought Janet Leigh had a lovely singing voice (not fantastic, but pleasant). I thought it was just a fun movie-- not earth-shattering. It's not one I watch a lot, but I may now just cuz you brought it up. And yes, the deli owner rants are not funny at all.