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The I Don't Care Girl (1953)

The I Don't Care Girl (1953)

Music

The Wild and Wonderful Musical About the BAD Girl of Show Business!

Release Date: 1953, January 14
Directors: Lloyd Bacon
Countries: United States of America
Production: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Dorothy Neumann, Nolan Leary, Bill Walker, Lovyss Bradley, Jimmie Horan, Craig Hill, Gwen Verdon, Marietta Canty, Barrie Chase, Wilton Graff, David Wayne, Joyce Mackenzie

Overview:

This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jessel is unhappy with what the writers present him.He tells them to look up Eddie McCoy, Eva's one-time partner, for the real inside story on the lusty and vital Eva. Eddie's version is that he discovered her working as a waitress in an Indianapolis restaurant in 1912, wherein singer Larry Woods and his partner Charles Bennett get into a fight over her and both land in the hospital, and McCoy convinces the manager to put Eva on as a single to fill their spot. She flopped, but McCoy arranges for Bennett to be her accompanist, and she went out of his life. The writers look up Bennett, now head of a music publishing company, who says McCoy's story is phony, and it was Flo Zigfeld who discovered Eva for his Follies.

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biography musical