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Director:
Hal Walker
Writers:
Buddy G. DeSylva (screenplay) and
Jack McGowan (screenplay)
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Release Date:
28 December 1945 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Musical | Romance more
Tagline:
It's a WONDERFUL Story ... About the GRANDEST people ... Having the LOVELIEST Time at ... New York's Most GLITTERING Night Spot! more
Plot:
A hat-check girl at the Stork Club (Hutton) saves the life of a drowning man (Fitzgerald). A rich man... more | add synopsis
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Where The Real Elite Met more (13 total)

Cast

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Betty Hutton ... Judy Peabody
Barry Fitzgerald ... Jerry B. 'J.B.' / 'Pop' Bates
Don DeFore ... Sgt. Danny Wilton
Andy Russell ... Jimmy 'Jim' Jones
Robert Benchley ... Tom P. Curtis (Bates' laywer)
Bill Goodwin ... Sherman Billingsley (Stork Club owner)
Iris Adrian ... Gwen (Judy's friend)
Mary Young ... Mrs. Edith Bates
Charles Coleman ... MacFiske (Bates' butler)
Perc Launders ... Tom, Saxophone Player
Mikhail Rasumny ... Mr. Coretti (Stork Club matire d')
Catherine Craig ... Louella Parsons
Audrey Young ... Jenny (hat check girl)
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Runtime:
98 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #10845)
Company:
B.G. DeSylva Productions Inc. more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
More than 700 photographs of the Stork Club in New York City were taken to help the set designers of the movie. more
Quotes:
Judy Peabody: You know I think he's a bit screwy, he thinks a girl named Ruby Stevens is Barbara Stanwyck! more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Moments in Music (1950) more
Soundtrack:
Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief more

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Where The Real Elite Met, 18 September 2009
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Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

After the days of Prohibition where Sherman Billingsley made his money, he founded The Stork Club which was in New York what the Cocoanut Grove was in Los Angeles, where the elite meet to eat as Duffy's Tavern used to advertise. It was only natural that sooner or later one of the studios would make a film centered on the famous night spot and Paramount was the one that finally did it.

The nightclub serves as a backdrop for the story of one of the hatcheck girls in this case Betty Hutton. When she sees Barry Fitzgerald falling in a lake and starting to drown, Betty remembers her Girl Scout training and jumps in and saves him. Barry doesn't tell her, but he's a multimillionaire who then becomes her secret benefactor, much like Magwitch was to Pip in Great Expectations. Of course it all turns out a lot happier in the end for this cast.

Barry's presence leads returning serviceman boyfriend Don DeFore to suspect the worst that Betty's found herself a rich sugar daddy. It doesn't sit too well with Mrs. Fitzgerald played by Mary Young.

Fitzgerald was in the publicity gathered by his Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Going My Way. For the next few years Barry received more screen time and in this case, co-star billing with Betty Hutton.

As for Betty she and the cast get songs from a variety of sources. The best known number is the famous Hoagy Carmichael-Paul Francis Webster song, Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief which Hutton sings with her usual gusto. Betty's fine, but the really primo version of this song was done by it's composer who was a pretty fair entertainer as well.

Owner Sherman Billingsley was played by actor/radio announcer Bill Goodwin. In real life Billingsley was hardly as genial a person as Goodwin plays him.

Still the film is a must for Betty Hutton fans and for those who want to celebrate the past era of gaudy, yet tasteful nightspots.

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