Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news for anything that happens to be in the way. As this is usually the local judge's rear-end, Freddie and friend Conchita are soon hiding out teaching school in the middle of nowhere.
Direction
Sturges' final American film—pure id, zero restraint.
Acting
Betty Grable commits to absolute lunacy with deadly aim.
Cinematography
Technicolor so saturated it hurts, in the best way.
Director
Preston Sturges
Betty Grable
Freddie
Cesar Romero
Blackie Jobero
Rudy Vallee
Charles Hingleman
Olga San Juan
Conchita
Porter Hall
Judge O'Toole
Hugh Herbert
Doctor
Al Bridge
Sheriff
El Brendel
Mr. Jorgensen
Sterling Holloway
Basserman Boy
Chester Conklin
Messenger Boy (uncredited)
Margaret Hamilton
Mrs. Elvira O'Toole (uncredited)
Marie Windsor
LaBelle Bergere (uncredited)
Emory Parnell
Mr. Hingleman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sturges made this directly after the box office failure of 'Unfaithfully Yours,' and studios were already cooling on him. This was his last Hollywood film before exile in Europe.
The film was a deliberate attempt to replicate the success of 'The Paleface'—Grable's previous Western comedy hit—but without Bob Hope's chemistry, the chemistry fizzles. Sturges reportedly rewrote constantly on set.
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