Sat 18 Jan 2025
Movie Review: HIGHER AND HIGHER (1943).
Posted by Steve under Films: Comedy/Musicals , Reviews[2] Comments
HIGHER AND HIGHER. RKO Radio Pictures, 1943. Michele Morgan, Jack Haley, Frank Sinatra, Leon Errol, Marcy McGuire, Victor Borge, Mary Wickes, Elisabeth Risdon, Barbara Hale, Mel Torme. Director: Tim Whelan.
A former millionaire tries to pass a maid off as his daughter and the season’s number one debutante, hoping to recoup some recent business losses. Naturally humorous romantic complications arise.
Notable as one of the first movie appearances for Frank Sinatra, who does a fine job playing himself. The plot makes very little sense, and the songs, while more than acceptable, do not entirely seem to match the story.
— Reprinted from Movie.File.1, March 1988.
January 25th, 2025 at 1:33 am
Frank and Victor Borge, even if the songs are mediocre, I don’t need much more to kill an hour.
January 25th, 2025 at 11:15 am
I’m about 90% sure I saw this one on the long ago version of American Movie Classics, a channel I still miss quite a bit. This was well before TCM came along, or at least it was here in CT, and I watched almost everything they played.