Mardi Gras
Military school cadet Boone wins a date with a French movie goddess (Carère) who happens to be the queen of the Mardi Gras parade. They fall in love, but Carère's movie studio wants to capitalize on this newly found love for publi...
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"A traditional musical made at 20th just as traditional musicals were dying, and supposedly infused with vigor by casting it with several young heartthrobs: Pat Boone, Tommy Sands, Gary Crosby, Dick Sargent. But it's pretty tired. The first half-hour is an unexciting display of military academy life, with our four cadets marching, kidding each other, and affirming their good-natured camaraderie. Then they hit the Mardi Gras, where they're raffling off to their fellow cadets a date with movie star Christine Carrere. Pat wins, and their love affair is troubled by you're-a-movie-sta..."
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The role of the gorilla was played by one of Hollywood's leading gorilla performers, Charles Gemora. This would be his penultimate film performance. For the remaining few years of his life, he resumed his job as a makeup artist.
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Military school cadet Boone wins a date with a French movie goddess (Carère) who happens to be the queen of the Mardi Gras parade. They fall in love, but Carère's movie studio wants to capitalize on this newly found love for publi...