Lynn is from the South (of Brooklyn)

Dixon Harper (Robert Stanton/aka Bob Haymes), recently released from military service, teams up with Susan Parker (Lynn Merrick), a Blonde from Brooklyn (1945), to get work on a radio show with a Southern bent. They decide, with the assistance of  "Colonel" Hubert Fransworth (Thurston Hall) to rename Suzie as Susanna Bellwithers, the daughter of an old Southern family. Problems ensue when a lawyer arrives to inform Suzie she is the heiress to the Bellwithers inheritance. 

There are A movies and B movies, but this one has to have been a C movie. It's a piece of light fluff with an amusing premise that goes to hell in a handcart by the end of the film, that's if you can stick with the movie TIL the end of the film.  At 65 minutes, this should be a peppy little flick. It's not.

Even the music in this erstatz musical, which should have brightened up the film, is on the boring side. Later on in his career, our leading man (by then using his real name Bob Haymes), who had just changed his name for this film (AFI Catalog), would go on to write hit music like "That's All" (sung by Nat King Cole) and "They Say It's Spring" (sung by Blossom Dearie). Maybe they should have asked him to write the music. It might have been memorable.

Neither Mr. Haymes nor his co-star, Lynn Merrick would have big film careers. Between 1940 and 1955, she made 46 films - primarily musical comedies and westerns - B films all. She's the most endearing of the characters in this film - Suzie is the only one with a moral compass, and the only character you end up liking (except perhaps for her roommate Diane Peabody, played by Mary Treen). After two unsuccessful marriages, she left films, and became an executive at the Barbizon School of Modeling. She died in 2007, at the age of 87. 

The most problematic character is Colonel Fransworth - Thurston Hall plays him as bombastic and shady from the moment we meet him. If we are to believe that our hero and heroine are above-board, we should be able to believe the Colonel for at least a few minutes. Instead, he comes across as a greedy conman, and talks like Foghorn Leghorn.

A couple of supporting parts worth noting - Hugh Beaumont appears as an uncredited Army Lieutenant. He, of course, would later go on to fame as Beaver Cleaver's sympathetic father on Leave it to Beaver. Appearing in her first film role - and unfortunately not dancing - is Gwen Verdon. Also uncredited, she has two lines, and then sadly leaves. Ah, if they had only given her a song. (Gwen Verdon: A Life on Stage and Screen by Peter Shelley).

We were intrigued by the remote jukebox where Suzie and Diane worked. I could find no mention of a service like that anywhere (sort of an on-request radio station), but it was an interesting idea. Sadly, that was the only appealing thing about the film. Should it come your way, I'd give it a pass and look for something better.