Geronimo1967
The Windmill theatre in London was renowned for staying open throughout the blitz and its there that this wartime feel-good comedic romance is set. Here it has been renamed the Music Box and is the home of an entertainment that never misses a night, even as the doodlebugs rain down on the determined population. Sam (Ernest Cossart) is the stoic stage manager and its through his eyes that we take a trip down memory lane and meet the formidable Tolly (Florence Bates doing her best Dame May Whitty) who is casting for her latest song and dance show. Rather curiously, a dapper young gent from Manchester appears with no set routine. He just likes to improvise his dancing to whatever he hears on the radio. He demonstrates and she likes it and him,...