Here Come the Waves (1944)

Just to prove that not all old films are worth remembering comes this flag-waver from the World War II years, although bits of it are cherishable.  Betty Hutton plays twins -- one sensible one and one flighty one -- who enlist in the Waves; she's an actress that one can only take in small doses since she is so frenetic -- and there's a little too much of her here.  The film's saving grace is Bing Crosby playing a Sinatra-like crooner who has joined the Navy.  His rendition of "That Old Black Magic" is still miraculous and his duet with Sonny Tufts (in blackface would you believe -- no way that would fly nowadays) of "Accentuate the Positive" is such fun that it makes the movie more than bearable.  I have over the years extracted the good bits from bad films onto my "movie clips" tapes and the latter is one of them.