Variety Girl (1947)

Director:

George Marshall

Writers:

Monte Brice (writer)
Edmund L. Hartmann (writer)

Release Date:

29 August 1947 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Musical

Plot:

Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (show-business charity)...

Plot Keywords:

Variety Club | Beautiful Woman

Cast

Mary Hatcher	...	Catherine Brown
Olga San Juan	...	Amber La Vonne
DeForest Kelley	...	Bob Kirby
Frank Ferguson	...	R.J. O'Connell
Glenn Tryon	...	Bill Farris
Nella Walker	...	Mrs. Webster
Torben Meyer	...	Andre (Brown Derby headwaiter)
Jack Norton	...	Busboy at Brown Derby
Elaine Riley	...	Cashier (Brown Derby)
Charles Victor	...	Mr. O'Connell's assistant
Gus Taute	...	Assistant's assistant
Harry Hayden	...	Manager, Grauman's Chinese
Bing Crosby	...	Himself
Bob Hope	...	Himself
Gary Cooper	...	Himself

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor) (cartoon sequence) | Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

Finland:S

Filming Locations:

Grauman's Chinese Theater - 6925 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

Under contract to different record labels at the time - Bing Crosby at Decca and Bob Hope at Capitol - the duo could not produce for the marketplace a disc of their specialty number from the film, "Harmony" (music by Jimmy Van Heusen, lyrics by Johnny Burke). Decca, taking another tune from the score, united Bing with his frequent recording partners, The Andrews Sisters, for a best-selling single of the jaunty city song, "Tallahassee" (music and lyrics by Frank Loesser), a ditty introduced in the picture by Dorothy Lamour and the usually non-singing Alan Ladd. On a Capitol 78, Johnny Mercer teamed with The King Cole Trio for their take on "Harmony."

Movie Connections:

References The Lost Weekend (1945)

Soundtrack:

HE CAN WALTZ

Cheap looking tour of Paramount Studios.

There's plenty of stars in this homage to Variety clubs international but precious little entertainment. A poor script and shoddy production values make this movie look as though it was shot over weekends on whatever sets happened to be available. Painful to sit through at times with dated comedy routines that were probably not very funny even at the time. Of the performers Pearl Bailey does a not bad musical number, and Bing Crosby and Bob Hope come the closest to being funny.