One of five films that Betty Hutton and Eddie Bracken made together at Paramount in the war years, the best-remembered of which is The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. In post-war times, their stars exploded, and both were out of Hollywood by the early Fifties. Their roles here are as nominal stars to one of those marvellous wartime studio extravaganzas in which pretty well every contractee was bound to turn up; in this case that meant Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, Susan Hayward, Paulette Goddard, Dick Powell and many more, with some well-known studio directors popping in for good measure. Betty Hutton plays the studio's scatterbrained telephone operator involved in putting on a show for her sailor boyfriend (Bracken) and his pals, and the songs include That Old Black Magic (nominated for an Oscar) and Time to Hit the Road to Dreamland.

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