Not sure why we had never seen this delightful film before, in which soldier Robert Walker befriends Judy Garland, and they fall in love over the weekend (shades of
Before Sunset). The best sequence involves milkman James Gleason and his real wife Lucile Gleason, who in dying too young of a heart attack, aged 59 (1947), joined the tragic set of Garland (47, 1969) and Walker (32, 1951).
Shot on location in NYC and at MGM by George Folsey, scored by George Bassman. The story was written by Paul and Pauline Gallico and screenwritten by Robert Nathan and Joseph Schrank.
Keenan Wynn is the drunk. Judy then married Minnelli.
It was billed with a fabulous Tex Avery short, from the same year,
The Screwy Truant, which defies description!
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