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15 November 1941 (USA)
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2 GRAND BANDS! JIMMY LUNCEFORD'S and WILL OSBORNE'S! MUSIC GALORE! (original print media ad - mostly caps) more
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"Jigger' Lane forms a band that includes singer Ginger 'Character' Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powelll...
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Nominated for Oscar.
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to Celebrate the Music of Mercer 11/5
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 27 October 2009, 7:15 PM, PDT)
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 27 October 2009, 7:15 PM, PDT)
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Almost perfect drama
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Priscilla Lane | ... | Ginger 'Character' Powell | |
| Betty Field | ... | Kay Grant | |
| Richard Whorf | ... | Jigger Pine | |
| Lloyd Nolan | ... | Del Davis | |
| Jack Carson | ... | Leo Powell | |
| Wallace Ford | ... | Brad Ames (as Wally Ford) | |
| Elia Kazan | ... | Nickie Haroyen | |
| Peter Whitney | ... | Pete Bossett | |
| Billy Halop | ... | Peppi | |
| Howard Da Silva | ... | Sam Paryas | |
| Joyce Compton | ... | Blonde dancing with drunk | |
| Herbert Heywood | ... | Brakeman | |
| George Lloyd | ... | Joe (St. Louis cafe owner) | |
| Charles C. Wilson | ... | Barney (as Charles Wilson) | |
| Matt McHugh | ... | Drunk |
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88 min
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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John Garfield turned down the role of Jigger Pine. In Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943), Mr. Garfield would parody the already classic, Oscar-nominated song for 1941, "Blues in the Night" (music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Johnny Mercer).
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In Waikiki
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A band lead by Jigger (Richard Whorf) has trouble landing a job. They get involved with gangster Dell (Lloyd Nolan) who gives them a job at his club. His jealous girlfriend Kay (Betty Field) sets out to destroy the band. Will she?
I'm only giving this a 9 because of the overly familiar story. That aside this is incredible. Nobody in the cast was a name at the time, but they're all very good actors. Field has a fun time in her bad girl role. Nolan is just great as Dell. Whorf is OK as Jigger. Also in the cast (and band) is Jack Carson, future director Elia Kazan and Priscilla Lane (who does wonders with the thankless 'good girl' role). The film is beautifully directed in gorgeous black and white by Anatole Litvak--he makes good use of his low budget and has some very nice sequences using light and shadows. Also there are a few truly bizarre (but fun) montages--they're unlike ANYTHING you'll see in a 1940s film. Also there's some really great music in here.
So...great music, good acting, beautiful photography...and just an OK story.
Still, well worth seeing.
Strange thing about this film--everybody seems to know about it, but it's almost never shown! Try catching it on TCM--their print isn't that great (the image kept shaking) but it's still worth seeing.