Color
100 minutes

"STEP LIVELY is a not unrewarding little show, either for those who want mere pleasure or for those who succumb to 'the Voice.' For the madcap confusions of Room Service, which the Marx Brothers japed six years ago... have been sufficiently preserved to assure an abundance of motion along a purely farcical line. And Frankie moans enough music to throw his bobby-socks fans into fits."
- Bosley Crowther, original New York Times review, 1944

In his first top billed role, Sinatra stars as Glen Davis, a playwright who just happens to be able to croon a mean tune or two - though it's a talent that's always played second fiddle to his typewriter tapping. Cash-challenged theatrical producer Gordon Miller (George Murphy) is trying desperately to get a musical comedy Davis has written up and running before all the rubber checks he's written bounce him and the cast out of the hotel they're rehearsing in... and into the poorhouse.

STEP LIVELY's 1944 backstage farce antics are based on the Broadway show and classic 1938 Marx Brothers film Room Service. The shenanigans come to hinge on Davis' ability to overcome a bout of laryngitis and knock out a musical number. Hotel brass Wagner (Adolphe Menjou) threatens to evict them from Broadway to the Bowery, leading lady Christine (Gloria De Haven) turns up the heat and songs by Sammy Cahn & Jule Styne - including "Some Other Time," "As Long As There's Music"and "Where Does Love Begin" - keep everyone in stitches and steppin' lively!

Warner Home Video's DVD release of STEP LIVELY, which was Academy Award nominated for Best Art Direction/Interior Decoration, as part of The Frank Sinatra Collection features subtitles in English and French.