I have hardly seen any musicals and the only reason i watched this one was because i kept seeing previews for it on turner classic movies. The movie stars Rosalind Russell as the mother of two daughters who want to be in Broadway. Russell meets Karl Malden and he agrees to help them out. Russell doesn't have any money and the only one with talent is her youngest daughter. Natalie Wood plays her oldest daughter and when the younger sister leaves, Russell expects Wood to take over. Karl Malden wants to marry Russell but she won't, not until they make it to the top. One thing i didn't like about it was that Russell sang too many songs and Natalie Wood hardly sang any songs. At first Natalie Wood looks like a tomboy but at the end when she basically becomes a stripper, she looks really great.