Lucky Me

When I moved and I went through each box, each tote that was packed I thought great I'm never going to find this wonderful movie again. Thank goodness I found it and I was excited to actually find it. this movie has special memories for me because this movie I watched with my grandma and that's when I noticed how great this movie makes you feel.

This is one of those lesser known Doris Day movies, but one that is exceptionally well put together with a stellar cast. It is nicely shot and scripted and worth adding to your Doris Day or any comedy collection. I miss films with the subtle innuendo rather than the "in your face" unrealistic and unbecoming "potty humor" in far too many films today.

I just love Doris Day's movies and Lucky me is one of my favs.

“Lucky Me” was the first musical filmed in CinemaScope, beating out Warner Brothers own, “A Star is Born” and 20th Century Fox’s “There’s No Business Like Show Business” which were released later in 1954. As such, it was meant to be a really big film, but it never quite rises to the occasion. It’s really one of the typical musicals Day was making for Warner Brothers since the late forties blown up in screen proportions and given more elaborate settings and lots of extras in the background of most scenes.As such it’s a good film with enough laughs and of course the presence of Doris Day. Day was suffering from nervous exhaustion and panic attacks and requested a delay in production but the studio and her exploitative husband/manager Marty Melcher made her do it anyway. You’d never know this from seeing the film, where she seems as bright and energetic a presence as ever. Day was a real trooper. She came through with whatever was needed for any film she was in and saved a few of the lesser ones single-handedly.She was let down by both the writing and the music, which remained on the small-musical level. Warner basically gave the project over to the same team that made “Calamity Jane” the year before, but lightning did not strike twice. The plot is a series of wholly predictable comedy cliches, including a case of mistaken identity and a show that might not go on. Robert Cummings as Broadway songwriter Dick Carson isn’t given much to do, and Day is required to overreact to his slight deception.Sammy Fain must have used most of his good material for “Calamity Jane” and really only delivers with the perky opening number, “The Superstition Song” which Day delivers in a delightful performance walking down the sidewalk; and the sweet ballad, “I Speak To the Stars” (a top twenty hit for Day). She does liven up “The Bluebells of Broadway” with the biggest Scottish brogue since Greer Garson sang “She’s Ma Daisy” in “Random Harvest”. The rest of the songs are the kind of pleasant-while-on but afterward forgettable numbers that one finds in any small musical. The thing was, if this film was all it was intended to be, it needed some big, memorable songs (and at least one really big dance number as well).The supporting actors are excellent, as they always seemed to be in Day’s films. Phil Silvers is the impresario of a small touring show, “Parisian Pretties” and is his usually loud and manipulative character, though also a sort of father figure for Day’s Candy Williams. Eddie Foy Jr. and Nancy Walker are the secondary members of Silvers’ troupe and are funny, though they aren’t really used enough, especially Walker. Poor Martha Hyer as the girl the romantic lead shouldn’t marry is written horribly selfish and shrewish without any redeeming qualities. We’re not supposed to be rooting for her but this went overboard. At least she looked gorgeous in fashionable clothes.Robert Cummings in the lead romantic role is a bit too bland. He’s nice, like a friend or brother, but doesn’t seem up to the job of kindling a major romance with a woman like Doris Day. In his favor he does drive a cool, creamy yellow Mercury Monterey convertible. Cummings was, like Dick Clark, known for his eternally youthful-looking presence and was about to begin a popular TV series where he played a swinging bachelor photographer. It’s astounding to find out that when this film was made he was a year older than Phil Silvers (and twelve years older than Day). He had appeared in a similar role in “Moon Over Miami”, a 1941 Betty Grable-Don Ameche-Charlotte Greenwood musical which this film most resembles in its settings. “Lucky Me” was shot at Warner brothers studios with a few establishing shots in Miami. The film would have been more effective with real Miami settings, but on location shooting was just getting going as a way to get people back into theaters and away from TV.“Lucky Me” may have had a disappointing box office and has become one of the lesser known Day musicals but is worth seeing for any of her fans.

Movie was great .... it started blurry and grainy and only had moments where it was clear enough to see the characters

one of doris days best films with the always good phil silers in the cast this film is an absolute win and thats something because i never could get into doris days romance films.

Great cast and fun

grert.

Very much enjoyed this movie as I enjoy most of Doris Day movies.

enjoyable and will re watch when I need a lift.

Bought this for a neighbor who was very pleased with it

Doris is so good in this film she makes you smile the whole time, and her comic timing is great. As usual. She is the best actress to ever hit the movie screen so this film is a hit or course. It may be cheesy at times but its good anyway, and its lovely to hear songs from Sammy Fain, the composer of Calamity Jane, as some of the songs used in 'Lucky Me' are in the stage version of Calamity Jane, so if you want to hear Doris sing 'Love you Dearly', as she would have done anyway if they hadn't taken it out of the film version, then buy it. Its really fun and lovely! The opening scene is the best bit..GO DORIS!