1h 47min | Comedy, Music | 25 November 1950
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Stars: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson, Alan Hale Jr.
Johnny Boyle Jr. ... choreographer: James Cagney's dances
Eddie Prinz ... choreographer
LeRoy Prinz ... choreographer
Al White Jr. ... choreographer
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043123/
This disc skips during ch15 (~50min), but only for a couple of min. The film is available online.
This disc skips during ch15 (~50min), but only for a couple of min. The film is available online.
In the Tap! Appendix for James Cagney, Gene Nelson.
This is my 600th musical watched since 17.Sept.17.
Although there's no antecedent film listed in IMDb and the 2 films share no writing credits, this borrows/shares some ideas with Flirtation Walk (1934, Warner), where Ruby Keeler, a general's daughter, is allowed to take the feminine lead in a West Point production aided by downed B'way stager Dick Powell.
Songs performed (30 chapters with menu):
- ch2. It's Raining Sundrops, Sung by a chorus, Danced very briefly by James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, chorus
- ch5. One Hundred Days Till June, Performed by Gordon MacRae and chorus
- ch6. By the Kissing Rock, Performed by Gordon MacRae and Alan Hale Jr., Also performed by James Cagney and Virginia Mayo (dubbed by Bonnie Lou Williams)
- ch7. Long Before I Knew You, Performed by Gordon MacRae
- ch11. Long Before I Knew You, Danced by Gene Nelson
- ch13. Ten Thousand Four Hundred and Thirty-Two Sheep, Performed by Doris Day and chorus boys
- ch16. The Military Polka, Performed by Doris Day, chorus, and Gordon MacRae, Danced by Doris Day, James Cagney and chorus
- ch17. You Love Me, Performed by Gordon MacRae twice
- ch18. By the Kissing Rock, Re-reprised by Gordon MacRae and Doris Day
- ch23. The Toy Trumpet, Danced by Gene Nelson and chorus
- ch28. B'klyn, Performed by James Cagney and chorus
- ch29. It Could Only Happen in Brooklyn, Performed by James Cagney, Danced by Virginia Mayo and James Cagney
- ch30. This Is the Finale, Danced by Gene Nelson, Performed at end by the entire cast of the show
JC (b.1899) looks his age, but still moves well; Yankee Doodle Dandy was released in '42.
GN dances well again, but JC gets some of the dance time that should be his; literally JC goes on for GN in ch28.
GN and chorus dance to The Toy Trumpet, a Raymond Scott song with 1st IMDb credit in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm ('38, Fox), danced by Shirley Temple & Bill Robinson, despite what it says on IMDb (and I submitted a correction back when I watched it). This film does it justice, in fact I wish the dance was longer.
JC, GN, DD, good dancing: what's not to like?
GN dances well again, but JC gets some of the dance time that should be his; literally JC goes on for GN in ch28.
GN and chorus dance to The Toy Trumpet, a Raymond Scott song with 1st IMDb credit in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm ('38, Fox), danced by Shirley Temple & Bill Robinson, despite what it says on IMDb (and I submitted a correction back when I watched it). This film does it justice, in fact I wish the dance was longer.
JC, GN, DD, good dancing: what's not to like?
Warner, dir. Del Ruth; 7+
