The I Don't Care Girl

1953 "The Wild and Wonderful Musical About the BAD Girl of Show Business!"

The I Don't Care Girl

6.1 | 1h18m | NR | en | Music

This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jessel is unhappy with what the writers present him.He tells them to look up Eddie McCoy, Eva's one-time partner, for the real inside story on the lusty and vital Eva. Eddie's version is that he discovered her working as a waitress in an Indianapolis restaurant in 1912, wherein singer Larry Woods and his partner Charles Bennett get into a fight over her and both land in the hospital, and McCoy convinces the manager to put Eva on as a single to fill their spot. She flopped, but McCoy arranges for Bennett to be her accompanist, and she went out of his life. The writers look up Bennett, now head of a music publishing company, who says McCoy's story is phony, and it was Flo Zigfeld who discovered Eva for his Follies.

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6.1 | 1h18m | NR | en | Music | More Info

Released: January. 14,1953 | Released Producted By: 20th Century Fox , Country: Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Cast

Mitzi Gaynor , David Wayne , Oscar Levant

Director

Lyle R. Wheeler

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Trailers & Images

Cast

Mitzi Gaynor

as Eva Tanguay

Mitzi & 100 Guys Surprise Package South Pacific Les Girls Anything Goes There's No Business Like Show Business The I Don't Care Girl Down Among the Sheltering Palms Bloodhounds of Broadway

David Wayne

as Ed McCoy

Finders Keepers House Calls The Girls in the Office An American Christmas Carol The Prize Fighter Ellery Queen Tubby the Tuba The Apple Dumpling Gang Huckleberry Finn

Oscar Levant

as Charles Bennett

The Cobweb The I Don't Care Girl The Band Wagon An American in Paris The Barkleys of Broadway Romance on the High Seas You Were Meant for Me Humoresque Rhapsody in Blue

Reviews

rowan1925 In spite of its imperfections, the film contains one of the most inspiring performances of any song in any film. Mitzi Gaynor becomes Eva Tanguay, insists on coming out into the audience, hits a star quality personality in the song "I don't care" when she sings - "Let down the gangway, for I'm Eva Tanguay, and I - DON'T - CARE!!!" I have tried to find this on DVD, but it does not exist. CAn someone get this changed??? Does it exist on CD or MP3 anywhere? I believe that Judy Garland sang the song in the film "Good Old Summertime" but I can't find that either. I have been remembering this song for over fifty years now, which shows how memorable it is. Not many songs have this power to impress itself on the memory, and it is only because of the great performance of Mitzi Gaynor, who is apparently still going today with live performances!

boblipton The musical comedy biopic gets the Rashomon treatment in this faked-up biopic of Eva Tanguay, one of the great stars of turn-of-the-century vaudeville. Mitzi Gaynor, as always, gives a great performance and it's a pity that, with the exception of the movie version of SOUTH PACIFIC, she was always Fox's B musical star, doing whatever they gave her. The musical numbers are all overdone, as if choreographer Jack Cole is mocking the form; the semi-strip-tease to jazzed up Mozart (I'm not making this up! It's the most out-of-place dance number outside of Sally Forrest's weird one in EXCUSE MY DUST) and other numbers that recall LADY IN THE DARK -- all very modern for the era and absolutely bizarre in context.Oscar Levant plays the piano magnificently a few times and David Wayne gives a typically graceful performance in support.

theduchess86 perhaps now twentieth century fox are at last releasing Mitzi's bloodhounds of Broadway, they might set about putting out the full version of the I don't care girl, it would be great, although it was a silly plot and not at all true to the life of Eva Tangway, and Mitzi leading men did not help her at all, Mitzi 's fabulous dance numbers showed why she was completely wasted in Hollywood, would love this film to be released with all the great production no's that were cut, also great to see Mitzi's TV shows being released on DVD, why do these things take so long? another great mitzi film although it was pure sinatra, not released is the great film the joker is wild, lets hope that one is released too

Chris Clazie This movie has been shown recently in England,so liking musicals,I decided to watch it.Curious mixture of voice overs,flashbacks and a film within a film,all packed tightly into less than 90 minutes.Mitzi Gaynor is astounding.The film works because of her.Although the period setting is earlier in the 20th Century,the dazzling production numbers are pure 50's.Paintbox bright colours are prevailant.Mitzi's costumes are spectacular.One wishes it was longer and more detailed,but it's an extremely agreeable way to spend 80 odd minutes.An entertaining curio.