Pin-Up Girl

Buy This Item Pin-Up Girl by 20th Century Fox  Available from Amazon  $10.49  on 11-29-2008     Betty Grable in the role that she made famous throughout World War II. A classic musical romance with Martha Raye and Joe E. Brown. Reader Reviews This is a third-rate 1940s musical starring the then-megafamous Betty Grable as a small-town girl whose little fibs keep getting her into big trouble. Actually, things work out pretty well for her: she gets a job headlining a famous nightclub and she marries the man she loves. What's terrible about this film are the musical numbers: they lack spark and go on way too long, particularly the dreadful "Skating Vanities" sequence, which must clock in at at least ten minutes in length. There's an awful lot of padding here, even for a b-line musical, but like most old movies, it has some fascinating cultural value... There's a not-too-subtle sexual undertone, involving the interactions between USO girls and the military personnel they entertain: the movie opens with a sequence where all three branches of the service implore the hometown gals to be their "pin-up", to which the girls demurely reply that they "know what you mean" but that they can't give them what they want. Later, when Grable's character has conned her way into sitting at a war hero's nightclub table, the sailor and his pal assume that she and her friend are call girls that the club owner has arranged for them... They don't quite put it in those terms, but the message is unmistakable. Nice glimpse into the hormonal rituals of America during wartime... and lots of crazy piled-up hairdos! (Axton)

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