Can't help Singing

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Can't Help Singing ★★½ 1945

In 1849, willful heiress Caroline (Durbin) ignores her senator father's (Collins) freewishes and heads west to marry her Army sweetheart (Bruce). But on the wagon train she falls for wagon master Lawlor (Paige), who's a better guy anyway. Durbin's first color musical. 90m/C VHS, DVD . Deanna Durbin, Robert Paige, David Bruce, Akim Tamiroff, Leonid Kinskey, Ray Collins, June Vincent, Thomas Gomez; D: Frank Ryan; W: Frank Ryan, Lewis R. Foster; C: Elwood “Woody” Bredell, William Howard Greene; M: Hans J. Salter, Jerome Kern, E.Y. Harburg.