Day 17 – River Cruising + It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)

Spent a relaxing day and managed to snag a new-to-me movie, Richard Whorf’s musical It Happened in Brooklyn.  Frank Sinatra thinks he will find all the confidence he lacks when he comes home from War to his beloved Brooklyn.  He does eventually but it takes the help of equally disheartened Jimmy Durante, Kathryn Grayson and Peter Lawford to do it.  Movie is uneven in the extreme but the good parts are good enough to make it a winner.  These include the lovely ballad “Time After Time” and every moment Durante appears on screen.  Who decided Lawford could sing and why did they insist on making him do it?