Best Foot Forward

1943

Comedy / Musical

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 50%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 50% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 1083 1.1K

hotel musical movie star military academy

Plot summary

Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend Helen Schlesinger unexpectedly shows up, too.

Director

Edward Buzzell Photo
Edward Buzzell

Top cast

June Allyson Photo
June Allyson as Ethel
Nancy Walker Photo
Nancy Walker as Nancy - Blind Date
Shirley Jean Rickert Photo
Shirley Jean Rickert as Dancer
Caren Marsh Photo
Caren Marsh as Dancer
720p.BluRay
912.62 MB
1084*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 39 min
Seeds 17

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by 7 / 10

Classic Actors

Enjoyed viewing this old timer from 1943 and seeing Lucille Ball acting as herself and getting plenty of laughs. In this film, Lucille's career is sort of fading and her agent thinks it is a good idea for her to get some press coverage by becoming a date for a Senior Prom at Winsocki Military Academy. The lucky guy is Bud Hooper, who at the same time has a girl friend who wants to go with him to the prom also. June Allyson, (Ethel) does some fancy dance steps and sings a few tunes, which sort of launched her career in films. There is some great entertainment from Harry James and his orchestra, he plays a great version of "Flight of the Bumble Bee" and also does a funny dance routine with Nancy Walker, who really was the great comic in the film and got most of the laughs. This is definitely a look back in the past, with plenty of 1943 entertainment. Enjoy
Reviewed by 7 / 10

Sit back and don't be too critical...and I think you'll enjoy this enthusiastic college musical

Reviewed by 5 / 10

The movie kinda grows on you.

I usually don't like movies wherein stars "play themselves" but cable TV plays this movie so often I've seen it like a million times and each time I catch something different. The story is somewhat contrived and, true-to-form, movie star (as opposed to TV star) Lucille has a hard time getting rid of her somewhat brassy edge. She herself has commented that this trait held her back in films. Toward the end, however, she does soften up, especially in the hilarious Marx Brothersesque scene in the dormitory when everybody has to hide in closets to keep from getting busted by the general. I can envision this picture playing during the war as the second feature. It's one of those movies that, in the days when you could stay at the movies all day, you wouldn't mind coming in in the middle of it and then staying later to catch just the beginning. Harry James is a surprisingly good dancer and his scene with little Nancy Walker is good. All-in-all a good movie to watch on a rainy day or when you're home sick with the flu.
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