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5.9/10   150 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Gregory La Cava (screenplay)
Gregory La Cava (story)
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Release Date:
1 November 1948 (Sweden) more
Genre:
Tagline:
When a gal who's got curves... meets a guy who's got angles... it's loving... laughing... living in a big way! more
Plot:
Leo Gogarty marries Margaud Morgan after a whirlwind romance just before shipping out to war. When he... more | add synopsis
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It Had To Be -- Who? more (7 total)

Cast

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Gene Kelly ... Leo Gogarty
Marie McDonald ... Margo Morgan
Charles Winninger ... D. Rutherford Morgan
Phyllis Thaxter ... Peggy Randall
Spring Byington ... Mrs. Minerva Alsop Morgan
Jean Adair ... Abigail Morgan
Clinton Sundberg ... Everett Hanover Smythe
John Warburton ... 'Skippy' Stuart Simms
William 'Bill' Phillips ... Schultz
Bernadene Hayes ... Dolly
John Alexander ... Attorney Ambridge
Phyllis Kennedy ... Elsie, the Maid
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Additional Details

Runtime:
104 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #12195)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
This musical (which can be labeled a semi-musical) marked the second and last time that Gene Kelly would sing and dance in a black-and-white vehicle. Gene's previous monochromatic musical had been his debut picture, For Me and My Gal (1942). more
Quotes:
Peggy Randall: A war marriage is as good as any other marriage - if it's to the right man. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in That's Entertainment! (1974) more

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3 out of 22 people found the following comment useful.
It Had To Be -- Who?, 4 April 2005
3/10
Author: David (Handlinghandel) from NY, NY

Watchable but pretty terrible. How shocking that this was the great Gregory La Cava's last directing credit! Even in his better known roles, I don't care for Gene Kelly. He seems to me to be smug, hostile, and self-involved. Here, paired with a minor actress like Marie Wilson, he seems to show those characteristics in spades.

Marie Wilson, playing an heiress who falls for a military man, is exceptionally hard and unsympathetic. The actors seem to be working hard to get past the hard, disagreeable core of the picture and they do OK.

The know-it-all butler is apparently meant to be funny but he seems like an extended riff on the prissy bits for which Franklin Pangborn was famous (and in which, despite their stereotyping, he was generally funny -- unlike this guy.) Phyllis Thaxter is as always very appealing in a rather underdeveloped secondary plot.

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