Love rehearsals Singer Katarina Miller successfully performs on the stage of the famous variety “Cabaret de Paris”. It is here that the famous writer Alexander Gordi notices it. He immediately offers Katarina the lead role in his new play. Deciding to try herself as a dramatic actress, Katarina accepts the invitation and comes to the luxurious Villa Gordy - exclusively for rehearsals. The writer discovers without much delight that Katarina did not come alone: she took her parents, two younger brothers, two dogs and even a parrot with her.
The arrival of Katarina is not too happy and the secretary of the writer Jacques Marval, who is actually the author of works that brought glory to Gordy. The latter uses his fame to easily win women’s hearts, and his secretary is too modest to tell the world the truth. The rehearsal process moves rather slowly as both Alexander and Jacques fall in love with Katarina. A romantic rivalry begins between men. Katarina herself is not completely sure which of the fans to give preference. Meanwhile, the owner of the variety, which in the absence of the main star began to suffer great losses, wants to return Katarina back to the stage.
The picture is staged in the genre of the so-called revue film, fashionable at the time, when dramatic scenes are interspersed with song and dance numbers. It would seem that it is doomed to success - after all, its director was Andre Junebel, who subsequently shot the legendary trilogy about Fantomas and several famous adventure films with the participation of Jean Marais, and the main roles were played by very popular in the fifties pop artists Gilbert Beco and Catherine Valente. But something went wrong. The script of the film is not particularly inventive, and the action sometimes becomes predictable and slightly boring. Even the great director Vittorio De Sica, who in the role of Alexander Gordy demonstrates his usual elegant charm, can not save the situation. This film cannot be called an undeservedly forgotten masterpiece. On the contrary, he once again proves that without a good script, no efforts of the director and actors can help the film.
4 out of 10