Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot.
Acting
Betty Hutton plays against herself with genuine screwball commitment.
Score
Bing Crosby crooning 'Accentuate the Positive'—instant earworm.
Production
Massive WAVES recruitment set pieces, pure studio-system spectacle.
Director
Mark Sandrich
Bing Crosby
Johnny Cabot
Betty Hutton
Susan / Rosemary Allison
Sonny Tufts
Windy 'Pinetop' Windhurst
Ann Doran
Ruth
Noel Neill
Dorothy
Catherine Craig
Lt. Townsend
Anabel Shaw
Isabel
Harry Barris
Bandleader (uncredited)
Mae Clarke
Ens. Kirk (uncredited)
Yvonne De Carlo
Wave (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Patron at Cabana Club (uncredited)
William Forrest
Lieutenant Commander (uncredited)
Oscar O'Shea
Commodore (uncredited)
Cyril Ring
Lieutenant Colonel (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was pure WAVES recruitment propaganda—Paramount partnered with the Navy to boost women's enlistment. Betty Hutton's dual role was the selling point.
The 'Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive' number became Crosby's biggest hit of the 1940s, completely eclipsing the film itself. Everyone forgot the twins, nobody forgot the song.
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