It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.
In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals.

This week’s musical:
Salute for Three (1943) – Musical #719

Studio:
Paramount Pictures

Director:
Ralph Murphy

Starring:
Betty Jane Rhodes, Macdonald Carey, Marty May, Cliff Edwards, Minna Gombell, Noel Neill, Frank Faylen (uncredited), Charles Smith (uncredited)
As themselves: Dona Drake, Lorraine and Rognan

Plot:
Press Agent Jimmy Gates (May) is trying to build up an unknown singer, Judy Ames (Betty Jane Rhodes), hoping she will land a spot on the “Girl I Left Behind” radio program. When war hero Buzz McAllister (Carey) returns home on leave, Jimmy cooks up a plot to create a phony romance between Judy and Buzz. But as the two spend time together, perhaps the romance isn’t so phony after all.

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It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.
In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals.

This week’s musical:
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966) – Musical #715

Studio:
American International Pictures

Director:
Don Weis

Starring:
Tommy Kirk, Deborah Walley, Aron Kincaid, Quinn O’Hara, Jesse White, Harvey Lembeck, Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Patsy Kelly, Susan Hart, Nancy Sinatra, Claudia Martin, Francis X. Bushman, Benny Rubin, Bobbie Shaw, George Barrows, Luree Holmes, Mary Hughes, Salli Sachse, Patti Chandler, Piccola Pupa

Plot:
Hiram Stokley (Karloff) has recently died. He is visited in his crypt by the ghost of his wife Cecily, (Hart), who is still young and pretty like the day she died many years before. Cecily tells Hiram that his relatives will soon be reading his will and dividing his wealth. His heirs include Chuck Phillips (Kirk), Lili Morton (Walley) and Aunt Myrtle Forbush (Kelly). In addition to the heirs, a group of swinging teens arrive to party at the old mansion. Hiram and his ghost wife keep a close eye on the inheritance proceedings, because he doesn’t trust his lawyer Reginald Ripper (Rathbone) or his daughter Sinistra (O’Hara) as they are out for the money themselves, who try to scare the teens off through scare tactics.

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It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.
In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals.

This week’s musical:
The Horror of Beach Party (1964) – Musical #718

Studio:
Distributed by 20th Century Fox

Director:
Del Tenney

Starring:
John Lyon (billed as John Scott), Alice Lyon, Marilyn Clarke, Eulabelle Moore, Allan Laurel, Damon Kebroyd

Plot:
When radioactive waste is dumped into the ocean, skeletons in the ocean are turned into sea monsters that survive on human blood. The first monster kills a young woman attending a beach party (complete with music from the Del-Tones). Monsters continue terrorizing the town, invading a slumber party and visitors. A doctor (Laurel) works to search

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It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.
In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals.

This week’s musical:
Pennies from Heaven – Musical #193

Studio:
Columbia Pictures

Director:
Norman Z. McLeod

Starring:
Bing Crosby, Edith Fellows, Madge Evans, Louis Armstrong, Donald Meek, John Gallaudet, Nana Bryant, Tom Dugan,

Plot:
Larry Poole (Crosby), who lives like a roaming minstrel, is tasked with finding two people: Gramp Smith (Meek) and a little girl, Patsy Smith (Fellows). Larry was just released from jail and one of his fellow inmates on his way to the electric chair wants Larry to tell Gramp and Patsy that he killed Patsy’s father, and to give the pair some property. While Larry does this, a welfare worker, Susan (Evans), is working to check in on Patsy to see she if she is raised properly or will have to go to an orphanage.

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