A while back, we watched the 1949 Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra (and that other guy) film On The Town. We thought it was pretty good. You don’t expect a lot from an MGM musical, and you don’t get it here. But it was good at what it was. It made a fun movie from what it had.
So we decided to watch the 1945 Gene Kelly Frank Sinatra film Anchors Aweigh. It is to be expected that MGM musicals have threadbare plots, but outright stupidity and characters so annoying you want to punch them (including a nine year old Dean Stockwell!) was too much. And it got multiple Oscar noms! No accounting for taste. We quit after about 15 minutes, before the actual plot even started.
We switched over to the 1942 Bette Davis film Now, Voyager * which was actually really good film. I’m not sure what I expected, but I wasn’t expecting that. Bonus it has both Claude Rains and Paul Henreid, just before Casablanca. Like, a day before Casablanca.
*I always hear the title as Capt Janeway giving the command to go to warp