Surprisingly incoherent and boring

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Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

What a treat to hear the songs composed so long ago and still familiar today - I particularly enjoyed the sweet story, too. The staging of 1890s Irish tribute plays seemed lush and I guess true to history - the backdrops and dancing really entertained. William Scanlan, portrayed by William Frawley, turned out to be the most unexpected bit of the story and his acting rang true. A comic bit of Scanlan's voice being provided by Morgan, as he drifted about backstage to 'project' through the scenery to the audience really made me LOL. Lots of fun to be had here and it's a fun show, even without Jack Carson! Extra nod to George O'Brien, a RL physical culture buff who portrayed Duke Muldoon, an historical physical culture buff.

This rare 1947 Warner technicolor musical is a nosegay of nostalgia about the career of Irish tenor Chauncey Olcott who reigned in the olden days of Minstrel Shows and Ballad Songs and learned about life from two women played by Arlene Dahl and Andrea King. George Tobias, Alan Hale and William Frawley are their co-stars whose names remain more familiar today. The plot moves along with rollicking laughter and plenty of conniving by Morgan as Olcott. The songs and acts are somewhat old fashioned, from the Minstrel shows and Ballad song days, but all charming and well done. There are some truths about starting out on one's own, learning from life's mistakes, conniving when luck is running out and other pieces of nostalgia which make the movie fun and light.

"My Wild Irish Rose", attributed to Chauncy Olcott, is one of the most popular, and my favorite, song commonly done by Barbershop quartets. This film is a story of his life, an Irish immigrant in the 1890s with a beautiful tenor voice, determined to make it big on stage. If this film is an accurate account, then he did very well indeed.Dennis Morgan stars as Olcott, and was 39 when the film was released in 1947, a veteran in the movies. His co-star, Arlene Dahl was 23, in her first film, played his love interest, Rose Donovan, who he supposedly wrote the song for. I don't recall seeing any of her other films, but she sure was beautiful as a 23-year-old.The movie is just one uplifting 100-minute pleasure to watch. Loaded with songs, and near the end a medley of Irish stage productions, including the title song. Dennis Morgan, with his great smile and great singing voice, is just perfect as Chauncy Olcott. His song to his mother, near the end, after she expressed remorse for not having believed in him, brough tears to my eyes. This is such a fine movie, any rating under "7" should be considered bogus. I give it a strong "8" of 10.

Dennis Morgan is a perfect choice to play Chauncey Olcott, Irish songwriter in a tune-filled musical biography full of Irish folk songs and dances. All of it is filmed in luscious technicolor with a pleasant cast of supporting players--Andrea King (especially good as Lillian Russell), Alan Hale, Arlene Dahl, George Tobias, Sarah Allgood and you may be surprised to see William Frawley as an Irish singer, William Scanlon, who figures importantly in some musical sequences.This vastly underrated film is hardly ever shown on TV (except for Turner Classic Movies) and still not available on video. Watch it if you enjoy nostalgic turn-of-the-century musicals about Irish musicians. Some of the material is pretty dated, but you have to accept that in the context of when it was made. Some of the comedy supplied by Ben Blue and George Tobias is a little on the corny side--but the film itself is still a delight for the eye and ear.