While she's not gold-digging for wealth as she was in both Blondes and Millionaire, she's actually more vicious here seeking fame, as she wraps Donald O'Connor around her finger, using him for all he's worth to advance her career... Doing this to him in front of his mother and sister is all the more humiliating, and the WOmen can't help but recognize their boy is over-matched by the wiles and charms of the Conniving Vixen Hussy... And watching MM work over a room of old geezers is about an unfair a match ever filmed as she leaves them all drooling...

MM is so sexy it's easy to overlook that MG's performance is major as well, with dance numbers and costuming that post notice  she would be a FemmeForce for years to come.  Not only looking gorgeous, she plays a poor sap (Green Acres' Hank Kimball) for a schmuck when he tries to hit up on her, tricking him into having 2 glasses of liquid placed on the top of his hand... Despite this movie being seen as "family-friendly," the WOmen (even Ethel Merman) all have a mean streak and the men are relegated to a secondary level... The movie's logic is clearly Matriarchal rather than patriarchal... While that's obvious, less-obvious is how Dan Dailey could ever bring himself to marry Ethel Merman... Can you imagine going to bed with her and at the height of her orgasm she starts belting "There's NO Business Like SHOW Business!"?