Let's Do It Again (1953 film)

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Let's Do it Again
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Directed by	Alexander Hall
Produced by	Oscar Saul
Written by	Mary Loos Richard Sale Arthur Richman (play)
Starring	Jane Wyman Ray Milland
Music by	George Duning
Cinematography	Charles Lawton Jr.
Editing by	Charles Nelson
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	17 July 1953
Running time	95 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
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Let's Do it Again (1953) musical set in 1920s Montreal, and released by Columbia Pictures. The film was directed by Alexander Hall and starred Jane Wyman, Ray Milland, Aldo Ray, and Tom Helmore. A composer's wife (Wyman) tries to make him (Milland) jealous and it backfires into divorce.

This light, breezy and lush color film is a reworking of a stage play, The Awful Truth (1924) by Arthur Richman -- previously filmed in 1925, 1929, and 1937 -- transferred to the screen and enriched by the performers.

The highlight of the picture is a bawdy (for the time) song and dance "The Call of the Wild," performed by Wyman at a dinner party, to the dismay of the party goers and the delight of the movie audience. Although not a major role for Wyman, it demonstrated her versatility as both a dramatic and comedic actress.