Dunham16 Review of Lovely to Look At

Lovely to Look At (1952)

A transition 1950's musical make of ROBERTA

[4/10 · 30 January 2019]

Fifties transitional big budget movies focus on a directorial mode and visual craft which today seem stilted. When remasteredt o DVD as superbly crafted with major personalities today remembered they nevertheless seem of less interest to millenium musical buffs than would be the surivors of even the thirties, forties and sixties musical. Traditonal and original formats from the fifties do DO survive and I have collected many remastered DVDs of them. Transitional ones try to meld contemporary ballet with stilted visual actor speech and song which suggests to millenium buffs stale, unsatisfying yet physically glorious. The soundtrack of this DVD is for some reason not remastered which to me lowers its rating. Thirteen years later Ann Margret, Edie Adams, Louis Jordan, Chad Everett and others rocked a quirkier remake about a sales manager in a New York Salon sent to Paris as the buyer for this salon not the half owner of one in Paris yet it works on every level and today survives as DYNAMITE.