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:
Sweethearts on Parade (1953) – Musical #844

Studio:
Republic Pictures

Director:
Allan Dwan

Starring:
Ray Middleton, Lucille Norman, Eileen Christy, Bill Shirley, Estelita Rodriguez (billed as Estelita),
Clinton Sundberg, Harry Carey Jr., Irving Bacon, Leon Tyler, Marjorie Wood, Mara Corday, Elinor Donahue (uncredited), Mimi Gibson (uncredited)

Plot:
Kathleen Townsend (Norman) and her daughter, Sylvia (Christy), live a quiet and peaceful life in Kokomo, Indiana in the late 1800s. Sylvia misses having a father, Cam Ellerby (Middleton), who Kathleen left when Sylvia was a baby due his philandering ways. Years later, Cam and his traveling medicine show comes to Kokomo, the three are reunited.

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