No Place Like Movies at Home: Higher and Higher

We are about half way to half way getting through my Frank Sinatra collections. For today's viewing we are watching Mr. Sinatra's very first credited on scene credit. Who is Mr. Sinatra playing in this 1943 film? Why, himself of course!

In the crazy household lives a millionaire, Mr. Drake. He has a very important dinner to attend and all of the house workers are getting everything ready for the night. When they get to meal time they find that they are the guests. It is soon learned that the reason they have not been paid in 7 months is because Mr. Drake is a millionaire no more. Everything is starting to look bleak until Mr. O'Brien, Jack Haley, gets a million dollar idea... literally. The scullery maid, Millie (Michele Morgan), could pass as the long unseen daughter of Mr. Drake, and can possibly trick a rich man into marrying her before everything goes bust. The problem is that Millie is in love with O'Brien, but is trying to make him jealous with the crooner that lives across the street (I am sure you are seeing were this is going folks). However, Millie goes along with the plan, until Frank Sinatra shows up at the door and throws everything into a loop. O'Brien has to keep Millie focused on falling for the another millionaire, while trying to keep her away from Sinatra, even though she is really in love with O'Brien and he has no clue. Hopefully everyone can fall in love the the right person and still get to keep their home.

I really didn't want to watch this movie tonight. Manly because I was tired and didn't really feel like dealing with movie stuff, even though it's less work than actually finding something on tv to watch. I knew that I really should so I popped the movie in. However, it took like one solid minute before I was totally hooked. The movie starts with a wonderfully upbeat song, that you can't help but tap your feet to. Then I got excited for seeing Jack Haley, AKA the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz, and that was a great treat! I mean I haven't really seen him in a whole lot other than The Wizard of Oz. This movie is 100% hysterical! It was a lot more interesting than the last film I watched in the collection. The comedic timing is perfect, the song are always wonderful when Sinatra is crooning them, and it was just simply fun. The only thing that you can tell is that Mr. Sinatra is no really used to having to act, which isn't surprising since this was his first acting role. He has a great first line too "Hi, I'm Frank Sinatra". I mean come one I would have fainted too!