The Dolly Sisters

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The Dolly Sisters ★★½ 1946

Competent musical about sisters Jenny (Grable) and Rosie (Haver), who become turn-of-the-century vaudeville stars and also find romance. Good songs, extrava-gent costuming, fine support work, and the charms of the two leading actresses provide simple enjoyment. ♫I Can't Begin to Tell You; I'm Always Chasing Rainbows; Powder, Lipstick and Rouge; Give Me the Moonlight; On the Mississippi; We Have Been Around; Carolina In the Morning; Ar-rah Go On, I'm Gonna Go Back to Oregon; The Darktown Strutter's Ball. 114m/C VHS, DVD . Betty Grable, June Haver, John Payne, Frank Latimore, S.Z. Sakall, Reginald Gardiner, Gene Sheldon, Sig Rumann; D: Irving Cummings; W: Marian Spitzer, John Larkin; C: Ernest Palmer.

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