Love Is Better Than Ever wartime " Big Mister Jim Tukker

" Big Mister Jim Tukker (James Craig

Chicago newspaper reporters Charlie Mason (Grant) and Rusty Fleming (Bennett) never let a good story get in the way of a prank

he struggles to find a way back to his wife in 1918

now he's in a slump

with costars Gordon MacRae and Gene Nelson on hand to help provide songs

Love Is Better Than Ever wartime " Big Mister Jim Tukker"Notoriously pretty and wearing her dancing tights with aplomb" (Newsweek), Elizabeth Taylor makes her screen transition from junior miss to romantic ingenue in this frothy frolic directed by Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain). Taylor plays small town dance instructor Stacie Macaboy, who travels to New York for a dance convention and finds herself unconventionally attracted to hardboiled Broadway talent agent Jud Parker (The Jolson Story star Larry