See this for the score, one of the best scores ever for an original as opposed to a Broadway show adapted for the screen. A dozen years later Seven Brides For Seven Brothers gave it a run for its money and stone me if THAT didn't have lyrics by the same Johnny Mercer that supplied these. Victor Schertzinger was a double threat, a fine composer who was also a dab hand at directing. It took seven people to come up with the story which may as well have been cobbled together by the seven dwarfs but the cast is something else beginning with Jimmy Dorsey then at the peak of his popularity and complete with his two great vocalists Bob Eberley and Helen O'Connell. Throw in William Holden, Dorothy Lamour, Cass Daley and Betty Hutton and standout numbers like Not Mine, Tangerine, I Remember You and the title song and what's not to like.
Review of The Fleet's In
