watchable but pretty terrible . how shock that this be the great gregory la cava last directing credit . even in his good know role and i do not care for gene kelly . he seem to me to be smug and hostile and and self involve . here and pair with a minor actress like marie wilson and he seem to show those characteristic in spade . marie wilson and play an heiress who fall for a military man and be exceptionally hard and unsympathetic . the actor seem to be work hard to get past the hard and disagreeable core of the picture and they do ok. the know it all butler be apparently mean to be funny but he seem like an extended riff on the prissy bit for which franklin pangborn be famous ( and in which and despite their stereotyping and he be generally funny unlike this guy . ) phyllis thaxter be a always very appeal in a rather underdeveloped secondary plot .