Babes in Arms (1939)

I am genuinely glad that I didn't grow up in the era that Mickey Rooney was considered a movie star; I find almost everything about him annoying. And, since this is the Mickey Rooney show, I found this movie annoying.

Basically, vaudeville is dying out and the show-biz families are taking their show on the road as a last ditch effort to revive it. They leave their teenage and younger kids behind to be threatened with being shipped off to some kind of a boarding school. To combat this very non showbiz fate, the kids put on a show. Judy Garland's voice is fine, even in blackface (!!), but nothing else about this both manic and tired musical is.

I'd much rather watch a show put on by The Little Rascals!

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