In case you've forgotten the 1956 musical this 'toon is based on (you've never spent a wet Sunday afternoon channel-hopping?), it was one of those song-packed Cinemascope extravaganzas that only the '50s was capable of producing. While not a great movie by any stretch of the imagination, it was soothingly pretty, slickly done and had Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr belting out enough cheery Rodgers&Hammerstein tunes (Whistle A Happy Tune, Shall We Dance?, Getting To Know You) to keep Grandma humming happily for the rest of the afternoon.
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