Meet Me After the Show

Director: Richard Sale Richard Sale

Overview

Delilah and Jeff (Betty Grable and MacDonald Carey) are a successful show-business team, but less successful as husband and wife. Finding that her producer hubby is unfaithful, musical-comedy star Delilah walks out on him, heading for Miami, where she got her start. In the process, Delilah feigns amnesia, then inaugurates a romance with a Miami playboy (Rory Calhoun). His jealousy aroused, Jeff heads to Miami to reclaim his wife, but she leads him on quite a merry chase until she finally allows herself to get caught. One of several 20th Century-Fox musicals produced by comedian George Jessel, Meet Me After the Show is a standard-issue Betty Grable vehicle, highlighted by several sprightly musical numbers, including a captivating routine with Grable and an uncredited Jack Cole and Gwen Verdon.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/16/2013
UPC:	0024543877974
Original Release:	1951
Source:	ALLIED VAUGHN
Presentation:	[Full Frame]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:26:00
Sales rank:	42,547

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Betty Grable	Delilah Lee
Macdonald Carey	Jeff Ames
Rory Calhoun	David Hemingway
Eddie Albert	Christopher Leeds
Fred Clark	Tim
Lois Andrews	Gloria Carstairs
Irene Ryan	Tillie
Steve Condos	Specialty Dancer
Jerry Brandow	Specialty Dancer
Arthur Walge	Joe
Edwin Max	Charlie
Robert Nash	Barney
Don Kohler	Airline Clerk
Rodney Bell	Dr. Wheaton
Harry Antrim	Judge
Lovyss Bradley	Wardrobe Mistress
Jewel Rose	Hairdresser
Carol Savage	Secretary
Michael Darrin	Orchestra Leader
Joe Haworth	George
Perc Launders	Turnkey
Gwen Verdon	Dancer
Max Wagner	Doorman
Al Murphy	Process Server
Dick Cogan	Man
William 'Billy' Newell	Stage Manager
Steven Condos	Dancer
Jule Styne	Composer
Ken Darby	Composer

Technical Credits

Richard Sale

Mary Loos

Richard Sale	Director,Screenwriter
Mary Loos	Screenwriter
George Jessel	Producer
Fred Sersen	Special Effects

Editorial Reviews

Fans of Betty Grable and devotees of Hollywood musicals are the best bet for Meet Me After the Show, a paper thin musical comedy that is saved by its exuberant dance numbers. Most Hollywood musicals of the period tended to have script problems, and 20th Century Fox's were particularly guilty of this; the studio tended to find what worked best for a star like Grable and then build variation after variation on it. Show at least has some good gags in it and some amusing situations to carry it along between numbers -- but it's definitely the musical pieces that make the film worth looking. Choreographed by the singular Jack Cole, Show has even more dancing than is usual in a Grable picture, and it shows her off to very good effect. Grable responds well to the demands Cole, a notorious taskmaster, makes and comes out shining. Even when she's having to share the stage with the then-unknown but still formidable Gwen Verdon, Grable holds her own and then some. (Fans of Cole's work in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes will especially enjoy the "No Talent Joe" number.) The Jule Styne-Leo Robin score is a bit of a letdown; it's serviceable but not especially memorable. But as long as it gives Grable a chance to cut loose, no one's going to complain too much.

All Movie Guide - Craig Butler