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26 November 1943 (USA) moreTagline:
LOVE OR LUNACY? It's the wild cry of a "girl-crazy" cowboy...but one clear-eyed daughter of the west ropes and ties him! morePlot:
Rich kid Danny Churchill (Rooney) has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education... more | add synopsisNewsDesk:
(3 articles)
Crazy For You Comes To The Theatre At The Center 5/7 - 6/14 (From BroadwayWorld.com. 21 April 2009, 8:12 PM, PDT)
Girl Crazy, Fanny and Anyone Can Whistle Set for Encores! 2009/10 Season
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 30 March 2009, 12:51 PM, PDT)
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'puttin' on a show' with Gershwin moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Mickey Rooney | ... | Danny Churchill, Jr. | |
| Judy Garland | ... | Ginger Gray | |
| Gil Stratton | ... | Bud Livermore | |
| Robert E. Strickland | ... | Henry Lathrop | |
| Rags Ragland | ... | 'Rags' (as 'Rags' Ragland) | |
| June Allyson | ... | Specialty Singer | |
| Nancy Walker | ... | Polly Williams | |
| Guy Kibbee | ... | Dean Phineas Armour | |
| Frances Rafferty | ... | Marjorie Tait | |
| Henry O'Neill | ... | Mr. Danny Churchill, Sr. | |
| Howard Freeman | ... | Governor Tait | |
| Tommy Dorsey | ... | Himself - Bandleader Tommy Dorsey | |
| Tommy Dorsey Orchestra | ... | Themselves - Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra | |
| Six Hits and a Miss | ... | Themselves - Vocalists | |
| The Music Maids | ... | Themselves - Vocalists |
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99 minCountry:
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EnglishColor:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)Certification:
Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | USA:Approved (PCA #9139) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Australia:GFilming Locations:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA moreFun Stuff
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Judy Garland's character's name, Ginger Gray, is a tribute to Ginger Rogers, who played the part on Broadway when the character was named Molly Gray. Ginger Rogers wrote that one night onstage in the play, her costar Allen Kearns accidentally said: "Ginger, I love you" instead of "Molly". The mistake got such a huge laugh from the audience that they decided to continue to do that in subsequent performances, pretending it was a mistake. (Source: "Ginger: My Story". New York: Harper-Collins, 1991) moreGoofs:
Crew or equipment visible: When Ginger arrives at the college and sees Danny get put onto a horse by some of the students to ride off to a campfire, there seems to be a trainer squatted behind an abandoned carriage cuing the horses. moreQuotes:
Polly Williams: Hi ya Church, hows your steeple?Danny Churchill, Jr.: So long Polly, watch your crackers!
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Embraceable You moreFAQ
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This Gershwin musical, first staged in 1930 (and filmed, not altogether successfully from a musical point of view, by RKO in 1932) gets another movie version, this time tailored for the talents of MGM's two top young stars, Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney.
The original story gets ditched and in place we get the usual 'kids putting on a show' stuff that Judy and Mickey did in all their collaborations during the 1930s/40s. The songs are done very well - Judy sings 'But Not For Me' and it is absolutely stunning, the way she is photographed during this sequence really complementing the beautiful melody of the song. 'Embraceable You', an unforgivable omission from the '32 version (it was filmed but then scrapped on the wisdom of David Selznick) is back. So Judy is great, while Mickey does the same bubbly act as always but he certainly had talent.
Perhaps one day we'll see a version which does justice to both the original plot as staged *and* the score. Neither the '32 or '43 versions quite got there - but both are worth your time, if only for quite different reasons.