Review of It's a Great Feeling

" . . . to act like a dog," Dennis Morgan (as a version of himself) needles first-time director Jack Carson (as another self-portrayer). Most near all the cast of IT'S A GREAT FEELING are playing themselves, except "Julie Adams" (a would-be starlet embodied by Doris Day) and Judy's long-suffering fiancé back in her hometown of Gurky's Corners, WI, "Jeffrey Bushdinkle" (played by Hollywood's brightest star, who would be assassinated in Real Life by the American CIA ten years later after leading Castro's troops to victory in Cuba). Ronald Reagan plays himself on break from the Oval Office, trying to stir up trouble between Carson and Morgan. Warner Bros. legendary directors Raoul Walsh, King Vidor, and Michael Curtiz play themselves, as meanies denying Jane Wyman (as herself) the chance to become First Lady and daughter Maureen Reagan (as herself) a shot at First Kid. Gary Cooper says "Yup . . . Yup . . . Yup . . . Yup . . . Yup . . . Yup" with a straight face, Edward G. Robinson saves his day job, Joan Crawford rues the casting couch, and Danny Kaye misses a train - - all as themselves. Though the Union Station information man steals the show, Ms. Day illustrates why Alfred Hitchcock would later cast her in THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (the remake).