It had all the ingedients for a great cancan, Gwen Verdon, The Merry Widow Maxim's scene, Lana Turner. What could possibly go wrong?
A mangled script for starters. I could almost have forgiven that if the cancan was any good. But it isn't really a cancan at all, and then there are the dancers' costumes! Where are the petticoats? And who had the bright idea to dress the dancers in those black see-though pantalets? (The same pantalets problem plagued "Can-Can" a few years later, although there they at least had the sense to have the dancers in conventional cancan dresses.)
A missed opportunity of the first order.
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