Don and Kathy would move in together. They would have a dog or two and then inevitably, a small parade of adorable little brats who would call him Uncle Cosmo, and they would spend less and less time with him, not on purpose but busy with the rest of their lives, and ultimately Cosmo would learn to make his peace with it because he’d have no other choice and he would have to try to move on and not live too much in his memories. He could picture it so clearly, he figured if the songwriting gig with Monumental didn’t pan out, he could always return to the backwater circuit with a new act: The Amazing Cosmo of the Cosmos—ladies and gentlemen, he sees the future, he reads the stars, he silently pines for his best married pal and all the while tap dancing!
Don and Kathy inviting him along on their honeymoon, though—that part was a surprise.
featuring multiple original showtunes, polyamorous shenanigans on a boat, feelings, romance, the worst knock-knock joke you've ever read, confessions, and some dawning realizations.
Helen Rose frequently designed costumes for period films that were much more contemporary in taste than the period they were supposed to depict. Good News is set in 1927, and while the costumes do include some references to the period, the women’s costumes conform to the 1940s silhouette with a defined bust, fitted torso, and shoulder pads. This dress is the only one in the film that refers to the beaded chemise dresses of the 1920s.
The dress is a deliberate stand-out and features in the film’s plot line. New sorority member Pat McClellan is reprimanded for asking a sorority sister to fix the dress and informed it is much too showy for a party at the sorority house. However, when she reveals herself as an ego-centric, social climbing gold-digger, she is told the dress is perfectly suited to her, and she makes her dramatic entrance down the staircase to a bevy of ogling football players.
This distinctive piece was used again in a musical number in the 1952 classic Singin’ in the Rain!
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