Girl Crazy (1943), 6+

Rich kid Danny Churchill (Rooney) has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to ... 
1h 39min | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 26 November 1943
Directors: Norman Taurog, Busby Berkeley
Stars: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Gil Stratton, Rags Ragland, Nancy Walker, Guy Kibbee.
Charles Walters ... dance director
Jack Donohue ... dance director (uncredited)
Sheila Rae ... assistant dance director (uncredited)
Busby Berkeley ...  "I Got Rhythm" number directed by

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In the Tap! Appendix for Busby Berkeley Girls, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney. Plenty of chorus boys tap too.

It's nice to have MR & JG as adults instead of teens. But I'm not developing a tolerance for MR.

Songs/dance performances, all songs by George and Ira Gershwin (24 menu'd chapters):

• ch2. Treat Me Rough (1930), Performed by June Allyson, Mickey Rooney, The Music Maids, The Stafford Sisters and Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra. JA is doing her best Betty Hutton impression, and I don't like it.
• ch8. Bidin' My Time (1930), Performed by Judy Garland, The King's Men and chorus 
• ch10. Could You Use Me? (1930), Performed by Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney 
• ch11. Embraceable You (1930), Performed by Judy Garland and chorus, Danced by Judy Garland and Charles Walters with 2 unfortunate, visually jarring cuts in the sequence 
• ch18. Fascinating Rhythm (1924), Performed by Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, with Tommy Dorsey on trombone and Mickey Rooney on piano (dubbed by Arthur Schutt) 
• ch21. But Not for Me (1930), Performed by Judy Garland, singing to Rags Ragland in the desert
• ch23. I Got Rhythm (1930), Performed in the finale by Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Six Hits and a Miss, The Music Maids, Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra and chorus. The movement of people and camera is signature BB and wonderful. (No overhead geometric shapes, though.)

I like the last 4 (bolded) numbers; the first 3 are skippable.

Berkeley was fired from the film for being too elaborate (therefore extending shoot time and going over budget); he was loaned to Fox for The Gang's All Here ('43), which is one of his best contributions to film.

Commentary track is informative; would be a good one to listen to INSTEAD of watching the movie, then just watch the good numbers. I'll give this a + for the good Gershwin tunes, CW dancing with JG, and the BB number. But I dislike the story and MR.

MGM, dir. Taurog & Berkeley; 6+