This is nothing so much as a prototype for London Town, i.e. Hollywood attempting disastrously to set a musical in London. Though they couldn't come out and say so the inspiration for what plot there is came from the Windmill - 'we never closed' - a striptease theatre below street level that remained open all through the blitz with Florence Bates in the role of Mrs Henderson albeit under a Jane Doe. It was virtually impossible to photograph Rita Hayworth badly but her gorgeous looks are really all this dire movie has going for it. It's also proof that Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn could actually write ho-hum numbers and is arguably by a country mile the worst score they ever penned. Lee Bowman is something of a joke as a leading man; clean-cut looks and superficial charm do not a Leading Man make. Definitely worth missing.
Review of Tonight and Every Night
