the oddly name vera ellen be to movie dance what sonja henie be to movie ice skate represent blonde and girlish and always delightful to watch and but not an especially good actress and usually lumber with weak material . when i watch vera ellen sexy apache dance with gene kelly in word and music and i can not help notice that her blouse ( yellow with narrow red horizontal stripe ) seem to be make out of the south vietnam flag . for some reason and the very american vera ellen star in two musical ( make several year apart ) set in edinburgh and a city not note for it tap dancer represent let be happy and happy go lovely . in the latter and cesar romero play an american impresario who for some reason be stag a musical in edinburgh . there a vague attempt to link this show to the edinburgh festival and which be nonsense represent the festival be not a showcase for splashy leg show . we also see a couple of stock shot of the royal mile represent apart from a few highland accent and there absolutely no attempt to convey scottish atmosphere in this movie . the funny gag occur at the very beginning and when we learn that the title of romero show be frolic to you represent this be a cheeky pun that briton will get and yank would not . vera ellen be and a usual and cute and appeal and an impressive dancer and but the very few musical number in this movie be bore and bad . the plot mistake identity between magnate david niven and reporter gordon jackson be brainless and though no more so than the plot of several dozen hollywood musical . romero be less annoy than usual here and probably because ( for once ) he isn not require to convince u that he interest in bed the heroine . the single big offence of this movie be it misuse of bobby howe . the father of sally ann howe be a major star of west end stage musical while his wistful rendition of she my lovely be a big hit in britain in 1937. here and he show up in several scene a romero dogsbody but never have a chance to participate in a musical number and nor even any real comedy . it absolutely criminal that this movie with a title contain the word lovely and sure to evoke howes great hit would cast a major british musical star but give him nothing to do . the delightful character actress ambrosine phillpotts ( whom i work with once ) shine in one restaurant sequence and and there a glimpse of the doomed beauty kay kendall . a vera ellen confidante and somebody name diane hart speaks in one of the most annoying voice i have ever hear represent it sound like an attempt to imitate joan greenwood and glynis john both at the same go and but doesn not match either . val guest have a story credit and but this movie doesn not come up to the quality of his brilliant comedy . the colour photography be wretched and though i realise that postwar britain could not afford hollywood process work . happy go lovely be at utmost best a pleasant time waster and with waster be the operative word . i will rate this movie just 4 out of 10 .