Film Friday: "Her Highness and the Bellboy" (1945)
For t his week 's "Film Friday," I have decided to celebrate both June Allyson's 98th birthday (which was on Wednesday) and Robert Walker's 97th birthday (which is next Tuesday) and tell you a little bit about the first of two films they made together. This is also happens to be one of my personal f avorites of theirs films. Original release poster Directed by Richard Thorpe, Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945) follows the beautiful Princess Veronica (Hedy Lamarr) in her visit to New York City to rekindle an old romance with newspaper columnist Paul MacMillan (Warner Anderson). After checking into the elegant Eaton Hotel, Veronica wanders into the employee offices and is mistaken for a new maid by a kind-hearted bellboy named Jimmy Dobson (Robert Walker). Charmed by his confusion, Veronica accepts his invitation for an afternoon stroll through Central Park and later asks him to be her personal assistant during her stay in America. Over the next day...