Warner Brothers 1943 war effort fundraiser musical revue Thank Your Lucky Stars is, as usual with these WWII studio public service affairs, totally devoid of anything approaching seriousness and focuses on getting as many of its studio's actors on the screen as possible to deliver great songs and comic routines. The plot here was inspired by itself: producers (S.Z Sakall and Edward Everett Horton) want to put on a wartime charity event for soldiers. Eddie Cantor (playing himself) takes over the production. Singer Tommy Randolph (Dennis Morgan) and his girlfriend Pat (Joan Leslie) try to get into the show and replace the real Cantor with a bus driver who looks just like Cantor (also played by Cantor). Zany comedic moments and confusion ensue as Eddie Cantor has to prove he is the real Eddie Cantor.
Thirteen of the film's 14 songs were written for it by Warner sound department staff Frank Loesser (w) and Arthur Schwartz (m). The 14th, "Blues In The Night" was written by Johnny Mercer (w) and Harold Arlen (m) for Warner Brothers' 1941 film of the same name.
2 hr 7 min
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