it curious that the two star of meet the people be a pair of movie star who go into the new medium of television and become even big success and who both go into the production end of thing and enjoy tycoon status on the small screen . lucille ball however be not a major star and that would come with television . a for dick powell he desperately want to get out of do film like meet the people and his career salvation would be come in his next film . i think the only reason that dick powell do the film be because a young player from mgm be cast in a specialty number and he be see her at the time . his private time with june allyson be far good than what we see on the screen . powell look crashingly bore and can not summon up any kind of emotion at all . he be probably tire of do these musical with silly plot and the kind he run from warner brother from . the original show meet the people be not a book show and it be a revue and it run in the 1940 41 season on broadway for 160 performance . when mgm buy it and they scrap everything but the title and the title song . the rest of the score be patch together from various and sundry songwriter and none of the song be memorable . odd when you consider some of the source material be from burton lane and e. y. harburg and harold arlen and and rodgers and hart . these guy just must have empty the trunk for material . the plot be silly than even most of the musical propaganda piece of the time . powell be the writer of a revue call meet the people and he a shipyard worker who win a lottery date with movie star lucille ball . she interested and he interested and theyre both interested in the revue and but creative difference keep them apart of course until the finale . that the film in a nutshell . mgm do give powell and ball some good musical act which be the main reason for watch meet the people . the big band of vaughn monroe and spike jones be here and the highlight of the film for me be bert lahr dress in a commodore suit like lou costello have in the dream sequence in in the navy . the song heave ho be write by arlen and harburg who write for lahr and the courage number from the wizard of oz . and a just about everyone in the world have see that film and you have an idea of heave ho be like . dick powell next film be murder my sweet in which he finally bid a not so fond adieu to musical . and lucy would have to wait for television before the world get to see what she really could do .