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...working-class area, could pass for the main avenue of a decaying Middle West town. On this stage, all parts of the overture sound simultaneously: an ersatz locomotive clangs and toots; an accordionist squeezes out The Sidewalks of New York; a sound truck emits the appropriately upbeat Buckle Down Winsocki...
...only sailors who want the change in uniform are those shore-duty jerks who are not sailors in the first place and reserves who are waiting for their points to come up so they can get back to Winsocki and tell all about how they...
Lucille Ball plays the part of a "bathing suit girl" actress who attends the Winsocki Military Academy prom to rejuvenate her position in the eyes of the public. Complications arise at the dance when a host of souvenir-minded girls succeed in ripping off a good portion of Miss Ball's attire. As an unpretentious bit of comedy, "Best Foot Forward" is a success because of its ready quips, uproarious scenes, and music that Duke Ellington would describe as "solid...
Pretty, comical Lucille Ball, with her high pile of fiery hair, plays the movie queen who accepts an invitation to the Winsocki prom as a sound publicity stunt. This is immensely embarrassing to the kid (Tommy Dix), who never expected his invitation to be taken seriously, and to his girl friend (Virginia Weidler), who finds herself a wallflower while the cadet corps make Lucille the belle of a brawl. Before the end of it, she has been stripped to her slip by souvenir hunters and has ricocheted among as many closets as the heroines of French bedroom farce...
Harry James and his band rock Winsocki to its foundations-the ballroom scene demands that the spectator love the Jamesian trumpet as St. Francis loved the birds. (Harry's rendition of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumble Bee makes the old-fashioned trumpet solo sound like a first lesson in occupational therapy.) But once the maestro parks his horn and takes the floor with bouncing, pint-sized Nancy Walker for a comedy dance which is the high point of the whole proceedings...