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Director:
Writers:
Dorothy Cooper (screenplay)
Dorothy Cooper (story)
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Release Date:
10 April 1953 (USA) more
Genre:
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... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
User Comments:
Another entertaining entry from the Golden Age of MGM more (11 total)

Cast

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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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Additional Details

Runtime:
92 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Jane Powell was pregnant during the filming of this movie. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Skullduggery (1983) more
Soundtrack:
Fine, Fine, Fine more

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Another entertaining entry from the Golden Age of MGM, 1 December 2005
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Author: Isaac5855 from United States

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.

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