No relation to the later
Clifton Webb vehicle of the same name, Sitting Pretty is a dated but likable film about the songwriting racket.
Jack Oakie and
Jack Haley play a pair of would-be tunesmiths who team up with aspiring dancer
Ginger Rogers. Through the kindness of a tippling director (
Lew Cody), the trio is given a bid for stardom in a movie musical directed by an excitable Russian (
Gregory Ratoff). The characters played by Oakie and Haley were loosely based on Paramount's real-life songwriting team Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, who show up in bit parts. Sitting Pretty is the film that introduced the sprightly tune "Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?" ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide