I Love Melvin

I Love Melvin

Songs! Dances! Joy! as a boy promises to get his girl's picture on a LOOK magazine cover!

195377 min6.2 / 10

A buoyant 1950s musical romance where a charming photographer pursues both his dream and his love through song, dance, and earnest determination.

Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk, and Melvin soon offers to do a photo spread of her. His boss, however, has no intention of using the photos. Melvin wants to marry Judy, but her father would rather she marry dull and dependable Harry Black. As a last resort, Melvin promises to get Judy's photo on the cover of the next issue of Look, a task easier said than done.

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