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Best Foot Forward (M.G.M.) is an effervescent edition of the Broadway musical hit by the young, of the young and, especially, for the young. It has almost the same cast, but Winsocki prep school has become a military academy (uniforms look nice in Technicolor) and who should be playing for the prom but Harry James, the Svengali of the Solid Senders...
...never matched its pristine achiechements of the Music goes 'round and 'round era when benny was beginning to be called the Swingmaster. We have wailed at his romantic tenors and will probably gnash our teeth at his forthcoming vocal trio, and have hung heads listening to "Buckle Down Winsocki." and when he comes out with a good record like "Limehouse Blues" or "String of Pearls," there has been jubilation in our ranks...
Buckling down for Winsocki has less appeal than hitting the line for Harvard. At least that's the opinion of a young lady who ought to know. She's Maureen Cannon, sparkling ingenue lead of the Broadway hit, "Best Foot Forward," who thinks that prep school boys, even if they're from Winsocki, are small-time compared to "some of those Harvard...
...Judy at the same time. We really couldn't say how it ends. We left in the middle of the city block scene, while Judy was singing a rousing spine-tingler that went, "Keep your chin up, Tommy Atkins, Cheerio, Carry on . . ." to the tune of "You Can Win Winsocki...
...workers Victoria Schools and June Allyson; Maureen Cannon as a forsaken lyrical young lady, singing of her desire to be a Shady Lady Bird, and stopping the show dead in its tracks; triple-talented Betty Anne Nyman as a tap-dancing, singing, acrobatic prom date; a rousing Buckle Down, Winsocki, with a full chorus led by minuscule Tommy...