With the help of the singer and dancer Dixie Leonhard, U.S. entertainer Eddie Sparks wants to bring some fun to the soldiers during World War II. Becoming a perfect team, they tour from ...
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| Bette Midler | ... | Dixie Leonard | |
| James Caan | ... | Eddie Sparks | |
| George Segal | ... | Art Silver | |
| Patrick O'Neal | ... | Shephard | |
| Christopher Rydell | ... | Danny Leonard | |
| Arye Gross | ... | Jeff Brooks | |
| Norman Fell | ... | Sam Schiff | |
| Rosemary Murphy | ... | Luanna Trott | |
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Bud Yorkin | ... | Phil |
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Dori Brenner | ... | Loretta |
| Jack Sheldon | ... | Wally Fields | |
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Karen Martin | ... | Victoria Lee |
| Shannon Wilcox | ... | Margaret Sparks | |
| Michael Greene | ... | Maj. Gen. Scott | |
| Melissa Manchester | ... | Corrine | |
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With the help of the singer and dancer Dixie Leonhard, U.S. entertainer Eddie Sparks wants to bring some fun to the soldiers during World War II. Becoming a perfect team, they tour from North Africa to the Pacific to act for "the boys". Later, they continue their work, but when the author Silver gets involved into McCarthy's campaign, and is being fired by Eddie, Dixie turns away from him, too. Written by Volker Boehm
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Laughter and tears. Tragedy and triumph. They lived it all. For the boys.Parents Guide:
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EnglishRelease Date:
27 November 1991 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Por los muchachos See more »Edit
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Budget:
$40,000,000 (estimated)Gross USA:
$17,860,280Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$23,202,444Company Credits
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Eddie: Such as what?
Dixie: Such as "Don't study," "Everything comes easy," "Life's a big party."
Eddie: Oh, well, sounds good to me.
Dixie: Oh yeah? You got three daughters. Why don't you give them the benefit of your wisdom?
Eddie: Because my wisdom is for a son. I got a closet full of baseball cards...
Dixie: Don't break my heart!
Eddie: Alright. How long's it now been - eight years Michael's dead?
Dixie: You shut up!
Eddie: No. You let me talk. Now enough is enough here. That boy needs a father...
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Music by Victor Schertzinger
Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Performed by Bette Midler and James Caan
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Lonzo Jones turned down a role in this film, due to being cast in a pilot at the time. See more »Goofs
During a skit on an early Fifties TV variety show, Dixie makes an off-handed joke about group sex that would have triggered a major scandal had it really been broadcast during that era. See more »Quotes
Dixie: You're gonna kill him you fill his head full of this crap!Eddie: Such as what?
Dixie: Such as "Don't study," "Everything comes easy," "Life's a big party."
Eddie: Oh, well, sounds good to me.
Dixie: Oh yeah? You got three daughters. Why don't you give them the benefit of your wisdom?
Eddie: Because my wisdom is for a son. I got a closet full of baseball cards...
Dixie: Don't break my heart!
Eddie: Alright. How long's it now been - eight years Michael's dead?
Dixie: You shut up!
Eddie: No. You let me talk. Now enough is enough here. That boy needs a father...
[...]
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Soundtracks
I Remember YouMusic by Victor Schertzinger
Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Performed by Bette Midler and James Caan
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An interesting film that seemed to try and do one too many things. It wants to entertain, educate, provide nostalgia, laughs and do character studies. The most interesting character easily is Bette Midlers Dixie Leonard. During her first performance `For The Boys' she is a vibrant comical singing and dancing entertainer who throws her heart and soul into her show. She is perhaps naïve and oblivious to what war is about and maybe even thinks it's just one big party and nobody really dies or suffers. By the end when she goes to Vietnam she is a vulgar, disgusting, embittered slob who harbors some anger that the GIs no longer swoon over her as they did a quarter of a century or so earlier. The GI's are of a different generation and she can't relate to them or why they have the attitude they do. She is perhaps also angry with herself for not being able to be enthused about performing for the fighting men of this war the way she was years ago. How does she end up like this? Well that's what this picture is partly about. It's not a bad movie and didn't deserve the blasting the critics gave it.