Doll Face

Doll Face is one of two attempts by 20th Century-Fox to make a movie star out of crooner Perry Como (the other was If I'm Lucky). Actually, Como is but a cog in the wheel of the main plot, which involves Vivian Blaine, a stripteaser with artistic pretensions. On the advice of her manager/ boyfriend Dennis O'Keefe, Vivian undergoes a "refinement" process. The next step for the girl is to write an intellectual autobiography, for which a ghostwriter (Michael Dunne) is engaged. Forget the plot, and concentrate on the production numbers performed with gusto by Blaine, Como, and Carmen Miranda. Doll Face is based on The Naked Genius, a play by Louise Hovick--better known as striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee.