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Small Town Girl (1953)
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Release Date:
10 April 1953 (USA)
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Tagline:
THE NEW HIPPITY-HOP MUSICAL! (original print ad - all caps)
Plot:
Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding throu a small town...
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.
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Another entertaining entry from the Golden Age of MGM
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jane Powell | ... | Cindy Kimbell |
| Farley Granger | ... | Rick Belrow Livingston |
 | Ann Miller | ... | Lisa Bellmount |
| S.Z. Sakall | ... | Papa Eric Schlemmer |
| Robert Keith | ... | Judge Gordon Kimbell |
| Bobby Van | ... | Ludwig Schlemmer |
 | Billie Burke | ... | Mrs. Livingston |
| Fay Wray | ... | Mrs. Gordon Kimbell |
| Nat 'King' Cole | ... | Himself |
| Dean Miller | ... | Mac |
| William Campbell | ... | Ted, News Photographer |
| Philip Tonge | ... | Hemmingway, Butler |
| Jonathan Cott | ... | Jim, Cop |
 | Robert Hyatt | ... | Dennis Kimball (as Bobby Hyatt) |
| Rudy Lee | ... | Jimmy |
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Runtime:
92 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Canada:PG (Ontario) |
Australia:G
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Jane Powell was pregnant during the filming of this movie.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Skullduggery (1983)
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Soundtrack:
Fine, Fine, Fine
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SMALL TOWN GIRL was a 1953 musical from the MGM stable about a rich playboy (Farley Granger) who gets arrested for driving too fast through a small town and falls for the sheriff's pretty young daughter (Jane Powell). Nothing really special here, Granger and Powell are charming enough, but this film will always standout in my mind because of two musical numbers performed by supporting players Ann Miller and Bobby Van. Both of these numbers would later be featured in different installments of THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT. "You Gotta Hear that Beat" was a sizzling production number featuring Ann Miller dancing amongst a disembodied orchestra where you only see the arms/hands of the orchestra playing various instruments. The second number "Take Me To Broadway" featured Van as a human pogo stick, bouncing his way all over town, greeting people and interacting with people and places in town, but he never stops hopping. It's just an amazing number and because of these two musical highlights, SMALL TOWN GIRL is a film I will always remember.