Cinema Betty

Midsummer Star has a fake engagement and a very gentle favorite of mine is:

It Started With Eve (1941)

A man's dying father wants to meet his new fiancée, but she is unavailable, so he substitutes a hat-check girl. Then the father unexpectedly recovers. It is an obvious vehicle for Durbin's awesome voice but the end is so cute.
There's also a really kitsch-y 60s remake called I'd Rather Be Rich (adorable but impossible to find) with the sex of the principles flipped.


Only one Hollywood starlet could earn the name of Pineapple Girl--Carmen Miranda!

Springtime in the Rockies (1942)

Vicky Lane and Dan Christy get into an argument about Dan's womanizing and go separate ways. A jealous Vicky becomes involved with her old dance partner and ex-lover Victor Price. Dan's career declines after that and he misses Vicky, so he follows her to a hotel in the Canadian Rockies where she and Victor are opening a new show together. Dan goes on a boozy bender and wakes up the next morning to find that he has somehow hired a latin secretary named Rosita Murphy. This leads Vicky to think that Dan is up to his old womanizing habits again.
But admit it. You just want to see the girl in the tutti-frutti hat.