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...filler sketches center either on a torch song by Lahr's attractive co-star Delores Gray or some mild mass choreography by the troupe. Miss Gray has a pleasant torch voice, but songs like There never was a baby like my baby are pretty thin. The many dance sequences, mostly people in purple suits running to and fro about the stage to some quickly forgotten tune, are unimpressive. Unfortunately this filler drags Two on the Aisle down to the level of just mild entertainment...
...should have something else. Tuneful songs, original sets, and pretty faces are enough to make a good musical. The only thing either colorful or entertaining in this musical is Fred Astaire's dancing. His singing and acting are coarse and mawkish, while his skinny co-star, Vera-Ellen, shows even less talent...
Both Miss McGuire and her busty co-star overact. The former is cast as the daughter of a Long Island millionaire, a soft mouthed old gent portrayed by Louis Calhern with die-cut precision. Miss McGuire suffers from an incurable heart ailment, a part for which she is physically fitted. Her expression is one of such pain, however, that she might have been better cast as a girl correspondent shipwrecked in a leper colony...
...co-star, Anne Revere, has a simpler role; yet anyone who saw her in Captain Brassbound's Conversion must be amazed at her complete transformation. If her contribution to the Brattle group seemed slight before, it is multiplied many times here...
John Raitt was disappointing as the male lead. His voice did not stand up against the difficult score, and the numbers he delivered suffered through his rendition. This was amply demonstrated when co-star Anne Jeffreys did the reprise to a number called My Heart's Darling, originally sung by Raitt. Miss Jeffreys, charming throughout, gave a certain grace to this song that was clearly lacking in Raitt's unmelodic, muddled version...