Review of Moonlight in Havana

A couple of Latin flavored musical numbers sprinkled with a trip to Cuba is the only sensible explanation for the title of this B musical. It isn't quite a follow up to the previous year's "Moonlight in Hawaii" even though it has the same leading lady, Jane Frazee. This surrounds a singing baseball player (Allan Jones) who keeps getting into trouble and wants to quit to try his hands as an actor. Then he changes his mind again, giving his various agents (which includes William Frawley) a ton of trouble. The specialty numbers are alright, but Jones has a dated singing voice perfect for 1930's movie operettas, but awkward singing Spanish songs, even though he's quite handsome. This is one of the weakest Universal bottom of the bill movie musicals which explains why many of these remain unrestored and only available in faded TV prints.