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Most in evidence and least in the way is Comic Milton Berle (Earl Carroll's Vanities, See My Lawyer), whose patter is sometimes funny, though his aversion to new jokes is hardly an asset. The screen's best deadpan butler, Arthur Treacher, buttles his way through a succession of poor skits. With finely formed, Hungarian-born Ilona Massey, the Follies does a little girl-glorifying, but in general the show lacks oomph as well...
Even a suave butler, in the person of famed Arthur Treacher of Hollywood, succumbs somewhat to the prevailing laxities. Although managing to maintain a certain propriety through an attempted seduction by Jitterbug Dancer Betty Hutton, when she cautions him "You can't take it with you," Butler Treacher unbends sufficiently to reply: "It wouldn't be very safe to leave it around here, either...
...addition to Ethel's native ability, there are the superb antics of a sailor trio from the Idaho, Arthur Treacher's poker-faced buttling, and the inhuman jitterbug energy of Betty Hutton to keep the show at a lively pace. Costuming and scenery are done in the best Panamanian manner by Raoul DuBois, and the book of Fields and DeSylva is good musical comedy stock. Added up, this should be the proper formula for another Broadway hit, but in its embryonic stages the show does not yet live up to its promise. "Panama Hattie" still gives the impression of dragging...
...picture is fast-moving light comedy with no weak characters to slow the pace. Roland Young brings horn-rimmed Caspar Milquetoast to life as he meekly submits to buxom Bostonian Ethel Marder--who acts a fluttery matron of social parts. And the inevitable fish-eyed English butler, Arthur Treacher, chills the drinks with a glance. The technicolor charity ball approaches the photography of GWTW; versatile Anna Neagle, who dances, sings, and acts with equal ability, sets a high mark for other screen beauties to aim at. This movie is a guaranteed cure for blue book blues...
...pleasant entertainment, as airy and filmy as the gowns in which pert Upholsterer's Apprentice Neagle dances her way into the heart of Madame Lucy (Ray Milland), the masculine modiste who employs and marries her. There are well-tailored performances by Roland Young, Billie Burke, Arthur Treacher. Cinemactress Neagle sings charmingly, dances delightfully, is saucy, dainty, indubitably youthful...