Pin-Up Girl
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Betty Grable, Eugene Pallette, Joe E. Brown, John Harvey, Martha Raye Director: H. Bruce Humberstone Brand: Fox Cinematographer: Ernest Palmer Editor: Robert L. Simpson Producer: William LeBaron Writer: Earl Baldwin Writer: Helen Logan Writer: Libbie Block Writer: Robert Ellis DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0; French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 84 minutes DVD Release Date: 2006-02-21 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: 20th Century Fox |
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Movie Reviews of Pin-Up Girl
Movie Review: A rotten musical, a good print and a fair package
Summary: 2 Stars
This film represents the low point in the splashy Grable musicals released by 20th Century Fox during the war and Hollywood cynicism at its worst. If you are not an ardent Grable fan, you'll hate the film.
With Grable's status as THE pinup girl of the war, a great opportunity was available to produce a really memorable film. Unfortunately, the story/script is really appalling, the lowest of low for a studio which was never known for its great screenplays for its musicals. Bruce Humberstone, a frequently poor director, adds nothing. Grable plays a secretary doubling as a night club performer. As far as plot, that is about it.
In typical Fox fashion, the colour and sound are excellent. Grable looks attractive but the makeup is heavy, particularly the bleached blonde hair. She was pregnant during shooting and the costumes have been designed to hide this. One would hope that Martha Raye and Joe E Brown would help but the material is so bad that they are just noisy and distracting. Most of the songs are lousy too - duds like "Don't Carry Tales". Two redeeming feature - the song "Once too Often" as Hermes Pan and Grable perform a tame Apache dance and the title tune, nicely sung by Grable in close up.
It should be noted that the print of the film in this DVD is excellent and among the extras is an entertaining deleted number which can be seen already in the Hidden Hollywood series. Richard Shickel's commentary, however, while providing lots of information, is delivered with so little vitality that it is hard not to go to sleep.