{"id":30252,"date":"2022-07-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30252"},"modified":"2022-07-21T15:34:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T19:34:35","slug":"lovely-to-look-at-1952-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30252","title":{"rendered":"Lovely to Look At\u00a0\u00a0(1952) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z072922zview_lovelytolookat.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Lovely to Look At<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(1952)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Mervyn LeRoy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by: \u00a0<strong>George Wells, Harry Ruby, Andrew Solt<\/strong> (additional dialogue) based on <em>Roberta <\/em>by<strong> Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:\u00a0 <strong>Kathryn Grayson, Red Skelton, Howard Keel, Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Ann Miller <\/strong>and<strong> Zsa Zsa Gabor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> One of the Grandest Romantic Musicals in Years!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three buddies, Al Marsh (Skelton), Tony Naylor (Keel) and Jerry Ralby (Champion) are having no luck raising money to back their musical.\u00a0 Their luck seems to have changed when Al gets a letter from France informing him that his Aunt died and left him 50% ownership in dress salon.\u00a0 The boys go to France to sell Marsh&#8217;s percentage and use it for their musical.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the plan until they meet Stephanie (Grayson) and Clarisse (Champion) the ladies who own the other 50%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Lovely to Look At<\/em> didn&#8217;t resonate with me.\u00a0 The production numbers were okay, but not great.\u00a0 Even Skelton&#8217;s bits felt flat.\u00a0 For these reasons <em>Lovely to Look At<\/em> rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z072922zview_lovelytolookat2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"291\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely to Look At\u00a0\u00a0(1952) Director:\u00a0 Mervyn LeRoy Screenplay by: \u00a0George Wells, Harry Ruby, Andrew Solt (additional dialogue) based on Roberta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,63,54,64,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-music","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30253,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30252\/revisions\/30253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}