As good as this movie is...

*Makes squeal of joy* ME TOO!!!!! I only wish that Jo had even LOOKED at Jimmy. He was my favorite character!!! Jimmy deserves way better and he was a such a WONDERFUL guy. Gene was okay but gosh, Jimmy was the best. okay I feel better now. :P

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I just wish he had been able to find someone nice. He was such a good guy just wanting Jo to be happy even if it meant her being happy with someone else.

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I think George Murphy was a good actor in this film. He really made his character and performance sincere so you were left worrying about him, whereas in a movie with Judy and Gene leading, he could have easily been forgotten.

But the way he looks like say when Judy is performing After You've Gone, and she gets to the part where she slows down, and he's sitting there and looking slightly hurt because he realizes exactly what's going on. That moment stood out to me.

"Farewell Ethel Barrymore, I must tear myself from your side" *rip*

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I have always felt kind of sorry for George Murphy himself. The man was a triple threat singer/dancer/actor, and extremely good in all three cases. It's too bad that his talent didn't catapult him to the stardom enjoyed by others just as good (or in some cases not as good) as he was.

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Absolutely. He was just such a kind person, full of integrity. I would have chosen him over Harry, hands down.

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Reesuh says > ...I was rooting for Jimmy right until the end.

I get what you're saying but I didn't like Jo so I didn't want Jimmy to end up with her. Jimmy was a good guy but she completely overlooked him and even sold him out much in the same way she felt Harry was going to do to her.

Harry had his faults but I much preferred him to Jo. She treated him badly from the minute they met; she was rude and obnoxious. She made fun of him. Stuck her nose into and manipulated his life, then led him to every problem he had. No, she didn't make him injure his hand but if you think about it, it was her fault.

His dream was to play at the Palace and he was very close to achieving it. Instead of being happy for him and letting him go as Jimmy had done for her, she thought only of herself. He may have cared for her but the way she went about it was very manipulative. Later, she put off marrying the man until they could do it while appearing at the Palace.

When he got that draft notice he wasn't thinking straight. His dream and his girl were fading away. He behaved badly, that's for sure but even if he had done it out of fear of going to war, as some people believed, his actions were understandable. She supposedly loved the guy but didn't give him the benefit of the doubt, tried to have compassion for him, or cut him any slack.

She was not worthy of Harry or Jimmy. I've never been a huge fan of Judy G but I like some of her movies. It's the character that bugged me. I enjoyed this movie but I think I would have liked it a whole lot better if Eve had thrown her out when she went to see her. For all she knew Harry was interested in Eve; they had been going out steadily and both seemed to be enjoying it. What right did Jo have to go to Eve? She could have talked to Harry about how she felt without dragging anyone else into it.


Woman, man! That's the way it should be Tarzan. [Tarzan and his mate]

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Ten years late, but I agree! George Murphy was so unbelievably appealing in this movie, his kindness practically jumps off the screen. I've seen this movie at least ten times, and I find myself rooting for Jimmy every time.

Actually, I always thought Judy had amazing chemistry with both Gene and George Murphy. Even in Little Nellie Kelly, their scenes together were the highlight of an otherwise pretty forgettable film.

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