When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948)

Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Jack Oakie, June Havoc, Richard Arlen ... see more  , James Gleason , Vanita Wade , Jean Wallace , Pati Behrs , Robert Emmett Keane , Jerry Maren , Tom Stevenson , Sam Bernard , Mauritz Hugo , Frank J. Scannell , Dave Morris , Tim Graham , Lela Bliss , Harry Carter , Edward Clark , Kit Guard , Annie Jones , Ted Jordan , Robert Karnes , Charles La Torre , George J. Lewis , John Farrell MacDonald , Lee MacGregor , Hank Mann , Marion Marshall , Noel Neill , Robert Patten , Harry Seymour , Charles Tannen , Dorothy Babb , Tiny Timbrell , Les Clark

Betty Grable and Dan Dailey play a couple of small-time vaudevillians, at least until Dailey gets a big Broadway break. Success swells his head to cataclysmic dimensions; he becomes an alcoholic, lose... read more s his stardom and winds up in the drunk ward. Grable divorces Dailey to marry rancher Richard Arlen, but Dailey's old pal Jack Oakie tries to rehabilitate the fallen star. Oakie's mission seems hopeless until Grable rejoins the act, and everything is patched up...at least professionally. If the plot of When My Baby Smiles at Me seems familiar, perhaps you've seen the previous two versions of the George Manker Watters/Arthur Hopkins play Burlesque: The Dance of Life (1929) and Swing High, Swing Low. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi