Call Me Madam

★★★★ MUSICAL This jolly Irving Berlin musical brought the dynamite Ethel Merman back to Hollywood, kicking up a storm as a Washington socialite appointed ambassador to a European duchy. George Sanders gets into the swing of things as the foreign minister she romances and the musical numbers, including

The Hostess with the Mostes and

It’s a Lovely Day Today, are outstanding. Dir: Walter Lang 1953, U, 110min