starring Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton
written and directed by Preston Sturges
98 minutes
Norval Jones (Eddie Bracken) is in love with Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton) but she doesn't feel the same way about him. She uses him as a cover in order to get out and go partying with a bunch of soldiers who are getting ready to ship out. She wakes up the next morning only to discover that she is got married and is pregnant. She doesn't remember whom she married.
Trudy brainstorms with Emmy, her 14-year-old sister, and comes up with a plan to avoid a scandal. She talks Norval into marrying her but the plan is for him to pretend to be the soldier whom she actually married, Ignatz Ratzkywatzky. That plan doesn't go as well as they hoped.
William Demarest played the part of Mr. Kockenlocker, Trudy's father. I've seen him in a number of movies in recent years including The Great McGinty (1940), Sullivan's Travels (1941), and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963).
Diana Lynn played the part of Emmy Kockenlocker. She played a key role in Ruthless (1948) which I saw last year at the Noir City DC Film Festival.
Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff have small roles in this movie playing characters more or less identical to the ones that they played in The Great McGinty (1940).
This was a very funny movie. Any description I give of the humor may oversell it but I laughed out loud on a number of occasions. There is a nice mix of physical and verbal humor. Hutton and Bracken are both very funny. Not every scene was screamingly funny for me but there are more than a few of them. This is one case where I think that the movie more than lived up to the hype.
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