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:
Mardi Gras (1958) – Musical #806

Studio:
20th Century Fox

Director:
Edmund Goulding

Starring:
Pat Boone, Christine Carère, Tommy Sands, Sheree North, Gary Crosby, Fred Clark, Dick Sargent (billed as Richard Sargent), Barrie Chase, Jennifer West, Geraldine Wall, King Calder, Robert Burton,
Cameo: Robert Wagner

Plot:
The students at Virginia Military Institute (VMI) are notified that they will get attend the Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans and march in the parade. Three pals — Paul (Boone), Barry (Sands) and Tony (Crosby) — realize that French film star Michelle Marton (Carère) will also be in New Orleans for Mardi Gras. The three hatch a plan to hold a raffle with the VMI students where the winner will ask Michelle Marton as their date to VMI’s graduation. Once in New Orleans, while the guys try to meet Michelle, she goes undercover so she can have some fun.

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