French real-life opera star Lily Pons teams with an incredibly young-looking Henry Fonda (in his third film) as a singer wife and composer husband team struggling to go places, with expected A Star Is Born-type results. Not too much of an acting stretch, you'd think, for Pons to play and sing the role, and she does it with some style and grace: her trilling of the title track by Jerome Kern (one of four) and Verdi's Caro Nome are the film's highlights. Fonda, however, didn't seem have to have hit his stride yet, though, to be fair, it's a feebly written, cypher of a role that plays second fiddle to the great Pons. Many eyes will stray to another up-coming player - Lucille Ball as the bizarrely named Gwendolyn Dilley, only her second billed role.


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