Lullaby of Broadway

Despite its promising title and the presence of Doris Day, this tailor-made vehicle is one of Warner Bros's least effective movies: no care or thought has gone into it, and the poster is much more attractive than the film itself. Day deserved, and received, far better material than this. Still, there are points in its favour - the songs, including Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart and Just One of Those Things, though seriously underperformed and staged, are nevertheless memorable, and the amiable and talented Gene Nelson is an effective leading man. Warners veteran Gladys George - The Roaring Twenties - brings all her experience to bear playing Day's wayward mum, and presumably taught Doris a trick or two about acting in the process, but if ever a movie looked undirected, it's this one.