having wonderful time

July 22 movie: Having Wonderful Time. This was a silly and fairly boring movie starring Ginger Rogers as a bookish secretary who goes on vacation at a campground. At first she resents the "mandatory fun" tone of the camp, and oh lordie, Ginger, do I know how you feel. Eventually she falls for Douglas Fairbanks Jr., a waiter/gigolo working at the camp to pay for college. Supporting actors include Eve Arden, miscast as a prudish debutante, a very young Lucille Ball as a party girl, and an even younger Red Skelton as the extremely annoying camp social director. Ostensibly the purveyor of mandatory fun, Skelton's real job is to do impersonations of campers which involve falling down a lot.