“Meet Danny Wilson,” starring Frank Sinatra, should be a familiar classic. It’s a sign of his unpopularity at the time that this savory and spirited movie, based on his own public persona, flopped.
). But the film’s energy is, foremost, that of Sinatra himself, and it’s something of a miracle that he unleashed it here in a role of scathing ferocity.
Joy turns out to be a singer and pianist at a high-toned night club, which is owned by a gangster named Nick Driscoll , who, on a tip from her, auditions Danny, is duly impressed, and hires him and Mike, for the mere cost of fifty per cent of the pair’s earnings—for forever, an agreement that he plans to enforce by force.
Above all, however, “Meet Danny Wilson” is distinguished by the presence of the apotheosis of saloon singers, and its musical numbers provide the movie’s grandest, glitziest delights. Danny gets his bona fides in a couple of casual numbers—a blues sung in jail, “She’s Funny That Way” done as the torchy audition for Nick—which meet with astonished acclaim, whether from fellow-inmates or from Nick’s cleaning crew.
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