this film ( like astaire royal wed which be show after it on turner classic network last night ) be famous for a single musical sequence that have gain a place in gene kelly record represent like fred astaire dance with a clothing rack and later dance around a room wall and ceiling and this film have gene kelly dance in a cartoon sequence with jerry mouse . the sequence be nicely do . what be forget be that kelly be tell the story behind the cartoon sequence to dean stockwell and his fellow child student at school during a break in the day and and set the stage for the sequence by have stockwell and the others shut their eye and imagine a pastoral type of background . kelly even change the navy blue he actually wear into a white pomeranian navy uniform with blue stripe on it . jerry mouse do more than dance with gene . he actually talk a first that he do not repeat for many decade . he also finally put tom cat into his proper place tom briefly appear a king jerry butler and try to cheer him with a platter of cheese . but the sequence of the cartoon with kelly take about seven minute of the movie . far more of this peculiar film be take up with kelly story of the lost four day furlough in hollywood and and how kelly end up meet katherine grayson and ( with frank sinatra ) stalk jose iturbi at the mgm film studio and the hollywood bowl and and iturbi own home . except that the two sailor mean no harm this film could have be quite disturb . kelly have save sinatra life in the pacific and and be get a medal a a result . they be both among the crewman back in california who be get a four day leave . but the script writer ( to propel what would be a short film kelly have plan to spend four day have sex with one lola and an unseen good time girl in hollywood ) saddle gene with frank . it seem frank be one of those idiot that appear in film after film of the movie factory ( particularly musical comedy ) who be socially underdeveloped and in need of instruction about meet girl ( or guy if the character be woman ) . frank insists that gene help teach him how to get a girl . just then a policeman take them to headquarter to help the cop with a little boy ( stockwell ) who insist on join the navy ( and would not give the cop his real name and address ) . when a protesting kelly be able to get this information out of stockwell by ask him some straight question ( which the cop could not ask ) and they insist kelly take the boy home to his aunt ( grayson ) . still protest and kelly get saddle with increasingly complicate problem ( mostly due to sinatra simplistic soul view of thing ) . he miss see lola the next day by sleep late sinatra felt he look so peaceful sleep he do not wake him up . he keep get drag back to grayson house and a sinatra feel she be the right woman for himself and but need kelly to train him in love making . i suppose my presentation of the plot may annoy fan of anchor aweigh and but i find this kind of story irritating . while the singing and dancing and concert music of kelly and sinatra and grayson and and iturbi be first rate and it be annoy to have to take the idiocy of someone like sinatra character seriously . in the real world kelly would have beat the hell out of him at the start for follow him at the beginning of the four day furlough what right have he to insist ( a sinatra do ) that someone who save their life should assist him on learn how to date . that kind of crap always ruin the total affect of a musical for me unless the musical number be so superior a to make me forget this type of nonsense . the stalking of iturbi be likewise annoy . kelly try to get grayson to like sinatra when he say sinatra can get her a meeting with jose iturbi to audition her singing ability . for much of the rest of the picture sinatra and kelly try to do that and and keep floundering ( at one point for no really good reason grayson herself ruin kelly attempt to get an interview at mgm with iturbi ) . it be only sheer luck ( that iturbi feel sorry for an embarrassed grayson ) that she do give him an audition of her talent . kelly and by the way and end up with grayson . sinatra conscience at not be able to help her see iturbi make him ashamed of his bother her ( but not pull kelly into it and oddly enough ) and he meanwhile accidentally stumble into meet a waitress ( pamela britton ) from his native brooklyn . and naturally and without any assistance from kelly and sinatra and britton fall in love . ah and consistency . thy name be not screenwriting necessarily .