Step Lively (1944 film)


Step Lively is a 1944 American musical film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Frank Sinatra. Step Lively was based on the 1937 play Room Service, by Allen Boretz and John Murray. It was a remake of the 1938 RKO film Room Service, starring the Marx Brothers, Lucille Ball, and Ann Miller.

Cast

, reviewing for The New York Times, called Step Lively a star vehicle for Frank Sinatra; although the scenes with Sinatra "perceptibly hobble the farce," and Crowther compared him unfavorably to Eddie Albert, Crowther stated that "when are left alone to play "Room Service" they make this an up-and-coming film."

Awards

The film was nominated an Academy Award for Best Art Direction.