Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
"Mush" Tracy: I`ve got a inventive mind.
"Peppy" Turner: *Most* sailors have.
"Mush" Tracy: No fooling, I`ve invented something right now, and if I get it working, I`ll sell it to the government for plenty of dope.
"Peppy" Turner: What`s that?
"Mush" Tracy: I`m crossing parrots with carrier pigeons.
"Peppy" Turner: What for?
"Mush" Tracy: So you can send verbal messages.
Gunny Saks: But Jenny, I`m your husband.
Jenny Saks: Don`t remind me.
Gunny Saks: I will never join the Navy again, even if they make me a general.
"Mush" Tracy: Have you ever seen a general in the Navy?
Gunny Saks: No, `cause they`re smart.
Jenny Saks: Can we visit the brig? There`s a man I`d like to see in it. Uh, I mean, I want to see a man who`s in it.
Jenny Saks: Can we visit the crows-nest?
Captain Dingby: No, under no circumstances. It`s nesting season.
Jenny Saks: Gunny, Sally is our child.
Gunny Saks: That`s a fine time for telling me.
Jenny Saks: Why?
Gunny Saks: I`ve joined the the Navy again
Jenny Saks: I`ll see you in four years.
Nora Paige: Is that your daughter?
Jenny Saks: Yes, first prize at the Marathon Dance.
Nora Paige: I guess your daddy is proud of you.
Sally Saks: I`ve never seen my daddy.
Nora Paige: Why haven`t you told him?
Sally Saks: Because someday we`re gonna surprise him.
Ted Baker: Hello.
Nora Paige: Hello, what`s the thing about?
Ted Baker: Well, boy meets girl.
Nora Paige: Oh, I see. Well, boy loses girl.
Ted Baker: Boy gets girl back.
Nora Paige: Not so fast, sailor.
Ted Baker: You`re not very patriotic.
Nora Paige: I am, but I`m not uniform-crazy.
Trivia
According to the biography "Beyond the Rainbow", this film was at one point to have included a role for Judy Garland.
Adding/correcting qv`s Cole Porter picked James Stewart for the male lead and later said he sang "Easy to Love" as well as any professional singer. A dubbing track was prepared with baritone Jack Owens, but it was decided that Stewart`s tenor voice was perfect for the song. In That`s Entertainment! (1974), Stewart said, "The song had become a huge hit, even my singing wouldn`t hurt it."
Allan Jones was intended for Ted Barker, but the role went to James Stewart.
Eleanor Powell singing voice was dubbed by Marjorie Lane.
Geraldine Robertson played Chorine (uncredited). She landed the part as a result of being crowned Queen of the Centennial at the Texas State Fair in 1936, crowned by Ginger Rogers, and part of the prize for winning was a screen test with MGM.
Some cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names): Charles Lane (Stage manager), Billy Watson (Newsboy) and Fuzzy Knight (Pianist).
The dress that Virginia Bruce throws on the floor and refuses to appear in is the same dress worn by Jeanette MacDonald in San Francisco (1936), a few months earlier.
The only appearance by James Stewart in a musical film.
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