The I Don't Care Girl

The I Don't Care Girl (1953) is a music film directed by Lloyd Bacon rated 7.3/10.

This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jessel is unhappy with what the writers present him.He tells them to look up Eddie McCoy, Eva's one-time partner, for the real inside story on the lusty and vital Eva. Eddie's version is that he discovered her working as a waitress in an Indianapolis restaurant in 1912, wherein singer Larry Woods and his partner Charles Bennett get into a fight over her and both land in the hospital, and McCoy convinces the manager to put Eva on as a single to fill their spot. She flopped, but McCoy arranges for Bennett to be her accompanist, and she went out of his life. The writers look up Bennett, now head of a music publishing company, who says McCoy's story is phony, and it was Flo Zigfeld who discovered Eva for his Follies.

Cast

Mitzi Gaynor

Eva Tanguay

David Wayne

Ed McCoy

Oscar Levant

Charles Bennett

Warren Stevens

Keene

Craig Hill

Lawrence

Hazel Brooks

Stella Forrest

Bob Graham

Larry Woods

Gwen Verdon

Specialty Dancer

Lovyss Bradley

Nurse

Marjorie Holliday

Secretary

George Conrad

Dresser

Marietta Canty

Dolly