Girl Crazy (1943) |
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Judy Garland
(as Ginger Gray)
with Mickey Rooney
(as Danny Churchill, Jr.)
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Other InformationPlot SummaryThis second film version of the George and Ira Gershwin`s Broadway hit Girl Crazy stars reigning MGM musical prince and princess Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. The 1932 version of Girl Crazy de-emphasized the main plot, building up the comic subplot... TaglineThe Big Musical with Broadway Flair and a Western Air! LOVE OR LUNACY? It`s the wild cry of a "girl-crazy" cowboy...but one clear-eyed daughter of the west ropes and ties him! Related MoviesWhen the Boys Meet the Girls [Remade as] (Year of movie: 1965) Girl Crazy [Remake of] (Year of movie: 1932) DiscographySinglesGinger Dear [1943] When It`s Cactus Time in Arizona [1930] Boy! What Love Has Done to Me! [1930] Bronco Busters [1930] Barbary Coast [1930] Sam and Delilah [1930] But Not For Me [1930] Embraceable You [1930] Bidin` My Time [1930] Could You Use Me? [1930] Treat Me Rough [1930] I Got Rhythm [1930] Fascinating Rhythm [1924] Home on the Range [1904] Happy Birthday to You [1893] |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Polly Williams: Hi ya Church, hows your steeple?
Danny Churchill, Jr.: So long Polly, watch your crackers!
Bud Livermore: Looks a little nervous, doesn`t he?
Polly Williams: He`s a study...
Bud Livermore: Yea...
Polly Williams: ...in suicide.
`Rags`: Money is just like women and popcorn: the more you get the more you want.
Ginger Gray: Were you always out of your mind?
Danny Churchill, Jr.: No, no just lately.
Ginger Gray: You just don`t ask a girl to marry you like you`re going to the hardware store to buy a coffeegrinder. I mean you just don`t come up to a girl and say `The humidity is very high for this time of year will you marry me?`
Henry Lathrop: I just didn`t want to get... uh romantic.
Ginger Gray: Oh you just didn`t want to get "UH" romantic. What are you saving it for?
Henry Lathrop: You know I like to put my cards on the table.
Ginger Gray: Well I think you could have taken out the joker.
Henry Lathrop: Well, after approaching the subject from every standpoint very objectively, I think it would be to our mutual advantage if we became engaged.
Danny Churchill, Jr.: Cody College... 8 miles
Trivia "Bronco Busters" (music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin), sung by Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Nancy Walker and chorus, was prerecorded but not filmed. The song is heard on the soundtrack CD from Rhino, and also on "The Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland Collection," a Warner Home Video release. After Busby Berkeley finished directing the finale ("I Got Rhythm" number, which was filmed first), he was fired by producer Arthur Freed and replaced by Norman Taurog. The reasons vary: modern sources say he was way over budget and behind schedule. Freed himself claimed it was because of a personality clash with Judy Garland, who requested his dismissal. Many cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names):Alphonse Martell (Waiter), Barbara Bedford (Churchill`s secretary), Sarah Edwards (Governor`s secretary), Harry C. Bradley (Governor`s crony), Spec O`Donnell (Fiddle player), Sidney Miller (Ed), and all the Committee women, Blanche Rose, Helen Dickson, Melissa Ten Eyck, Vangie Beilby, Julia Griffith, Lillian West, Sandra Morgan, Peggy Leon and Bess Flowers. The musical play opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 14 October 1930 and had 272 performances. The leads were played by Ginger Rogers and Allen Kearns, but the cast also included Ethel Merman in her first Broadway production. She was featured in the "I Got Rhythm" number.
In the finale of the movie, a musical scene entitled "I Got Rhythm" Ginger Gray (played by Judy Garland) and Danny Churchill Jr. (played by Mickey Rooney) are lifted by a group of cowboys, while guns were going off around them. Garland was terribly afraid to do this shot, and Rooney had to coax her into it. Judy Garland`s character`s name, Ginger Gray, is a tribute to Ginger Rogers, who played the part on Broadway when the character was named Molly Gray. Ginger Rogers wrote that one night onstage in the play, her costar Allen Kearns accidentally said: "Ginger, I love you" instead of "Molly". The mistake got such a huge laugh from the audience that they decided to continue to do that in subsequent performances, pretending it was a mistake. (Source: "Ginger: My Story". New York: Harper-Collins, 1991) | ||
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