Mel Tormé

A Korean war veteran returns home to Washington D.C. and resumes his job at a public relations-opinion research firm but quickly discovers that his partner has mysteriously died and the firm is now in the pro-communist propaganda business.

With boundless enthusiasm and enough jive to meld '20s flapper giddiness with '40s swing, 1947's Good News - the feature directing debut of Charles Walters (Easter Parade, The Unsinkable Molly Brown) and screenwriting debut of Betty Comden and Adolph Green (Singin' in the Rain, The Band Wagon) - is "one of the best of the lighthearted rah-rah collegiate musicals" (Pauline Kael, The New Yorker).