Meet Me after the Show ** (1951, Betty Grable, Macdonald Carey, Rory Calhoun, Eddie Albert, Fred Clark, Lois Andrews, Irene Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 13,634

The 1951 20th Century Fox Technicolor film Meet Me after the Show is another Betty Grable hit musical with a showbiz background.

Co-writer./ director Richard Sale’s 1951 20th Century Fox Technicolor musical film Meet Me after the Show is just another Betty Grable musical with a showbiz background.

She plays a song ‘n dance headliner called Delilah Lee, who believes she has stumbled on her impresario husband Jeff Ames (Macdonald Carey)’s affair with Gloria Carstairs (Lois Andrews), the beautiful woman backing his new Broadway show.

Delilah quits his production, pretends that she is an amnesiac and starts up again in Florida, where she catches the eye of an oily man-about-town, David Hemingway (Rory Calhoun).

There is nothing really special at all here in this trivial film with a thin and unpersuasive story, and Carey and Calhoun aren’t any real help. But, still, Betty is bright and beautiful, and there are some nice Jule Styne – Leo Robin songs and there is smart choreography (especially niftily danced in Grable and Gwen Verdon’s ‘street kid’ number).

Gwen Verdon appears uncredited as singer and dancer in some of the musical numbers, including ‘No-Talent Joe’ (as Sappho) and ‘I Feel Like Dancing’. The 6’6″ former weightlifter and professional wrestler Arthur Walge plays the statuesque No-Talent Joe.

 Irene Ryan, Granny in TV’s The Beverly Hillbillies (1962 to 1971), plays Grable’s maid Tillie.

Cast: Betty Grable, Macdonald Carey, Rory Calhoun, Eddie Albert, Fred Clark, Irene Ryan, Lois Andrews, Steve Condos, Jerry Brandow, Arthur Walge, Edwin Max, Robert Nash, Don Kohler, and Gwen Verdon.

Meet Me After the Show was a box office hit, following the successes of her two films the previous year, Wabash Avenue and My Blue Heaven.

© Derek Winnert 2025 – Classic Movie Review 13,634

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