A double brandy for me, please, bartender!
Now this is classic.
A prime Frank Sinatra serenading the luminous Rita Hayworth in George Stevens’ 1957 melo-musical Pal Joey. The film itself is light on plot, and even lighter on acting, but … oh, come on. Who are we kiddin’? We’re only here to hear Frankie croon, see Kim Novak brood and watch Rita Hayworth strut. And we get all of those in Pal Joey.
The piece de resistance is this three minute scene in which the eternal standard The Lady is a Tramp gets Frankie’s royal treatment. And if there ain’t a gal out there who doesn’t swoon, faint, and thud at ol’ blue eyes’ debonair, seductive appeal then, well, please forgive my French, but … merde. God help us all! (Really ladies, just watch him kick that piano away!)
Treat ’em mean and keep ’em keen, Frankie!!
he could make standing still look smooth like buttah!
Oh, ain’t it the truth!!