present lily mar may have provide judy garland with one of the easy role she have while at mgm because lily mar be definitely a character she could identify with . a young girl with talent enough for ten and she know she have what it take to make it in the theater no matter how much producer van heflin from her home town discourage her . i really like judy in this one a the girl determine to make it in the theater . because it be judy garland with the talent of judy garland you in the audience know she have the right stuff even if it take van heflin nearly the whole movie to be convince . both judy and heflin hail from the same small town and heflin dad be the town doctor who deliver her and heflin while he may have move away and become a big producer on broadway and their respective mom and fay bainter and spring byington have keep in touch . that her entrée and but heflin constantly barrage with stagestruck kid and but never anyone quite like lily mar . no real big song hit come out of present lily mar for garland and though she sing all her number . the best in the film be a revival of that gaslight era chestnut and every little movement have a mean all it own . judy sings it with connie gilchrist play the cleaning lady in a broadway theater where heflin show be be produce . gilchrist be a star back in the day of the floradora girl and she and judy deliver the song in grand style with connie . it the best scene in the film a gilchrist encourages judy to keep at it . composer karl hoschna have die a long time ago and but lyricist otto harbach be still alive and i be bet he like what he hear . european musical star marta eggerth be in present lily mar a the show star who at first bemuse and then angry and finally and understand of garland and heflin . she do a couple of film with mgm and then go back to europe for more work on the continent . i be bet mgm do not quite know what to do with her and her thick hungarian accent and though louis b. mayer never meet a soprano he do not like . van heflin do well a the patient producer who put up with a lot from garland and eggerth . heflin be just come off his oscar for johnny eager the previous year and he and garland wouldn not appear to be an ideal screen team and but theyre not bad together . present lily mar be a fine showcase for the talent of judy garland . and she do not have to share the screen in another backstage film with mickey rooney .