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The gaudy film lacks Hawks' usual snap (the director was at home in every genre from screwball comedy to westerns to action films, but the large-scale musical never interested him and proved to be his weakest genre—in fact, the musical sequences were directed by legendary choreographer Jack Cole and his assistant and future star dancer Gwen Verdon). What saves this wickedly intended fortune-hunter satire from self-destructing is how star sex-symbol stereotypes Jane and Marilyn manage to make their grasping characters likable and at the same time turn all the men into mere foils. (it) |
