How to be Very, Very Popular, 1955, 20th Century Fox, 89 min. Writer/director Nunnally Johnson loosely adapts the 1933 stage farce “She Loves Me Not,” with Betty Grable and Sheree North as two strippers named Stormy Tornado and Curly Flagg who go on the lam after a bald-headed killer threatens to rub them out. They take refuge in a college fraternity, wreaking predictable havoc amongst the male denizens. Robert Cummings and Charles Coburn co-star.
DOLL FACE, 1946, 20th Century Fox, 80 min. “The Classy Chassis from Tallahassee. 'Cept she's from Brooklyn, but that don't rhyme with nothin'.” Director Lewis Seiler adapts Gypsy Rose Lee’s play “The Naked Genius” into this frothy, entertaining musical comedy confection. Charismatic Vivian Blaine is “Doll Face” Carroll and Dennis O’Keefe is her manager trying to haul her up the ladder from burlesque to the big time.