It happened to Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson, reunited after Anchors Aweigh (and again in the following year's The Kissing Bandit, to lesser success) in as lightweight a piece of fluff as you're ever likely to see. The great Jimmy Durante virtually stops the show in a fabulous duet with Sinatra called The Song's Gotta Come from the Heart ("Don't work cheap!" enjoins the Schnozzle), and Grayson stops the movie in slightly different manner with a chunk from Delibes's opera Lakmé. Frankie gets to introduce an all-time classic, Sammy Cahn's Time after Time, and his buddy Peter Lawford knocks off a sweet swing version of Whose Baby Are You?. The piano work is that of a very young André Previn, and Gloria Grahame's in there, too. All that was really needed was a decent director and Technicolor, but MGM was on one of its economy drives. As it is, it's just a jolly little musical movie.

Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. When he returns after the war, he soon finds that Brooklyn is not so nice after all. He is able to share a place with Nick, the janitor of his old High School, and get a job as a singer in a music store. He also meets Leo, a talented pianist and his teacher Anne, whose dream is to singing Opera. When Jamie arrives from England, Danny tries to show him the Brooklyn experience and help him compose modern swing music. Together, these four also try to help Leo get the Brooklyn Music scholarship.