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Other InformationAwardsBest Art Direction-Set Decoration Academy Awards [1958] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Costume Design Academy Awards [1958] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Film Editing Academy Awards [1958] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Sound, Recording Academy Awards [1958] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Written American Musical Writers Guild of America, USA [1958] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Top Male Musical Performance Laurel Awards [1958] (Won/Nominated: Won) Top Music Director Laurel Awards [1958] (Won/Nominated: 2nd place) Top Musical Laurel Awards [1958] (Won/Nominated: Won) Plot SummaryThe John O`Hara/Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Broadway musical Pal Joey created quite a stir during its original theatrical run in 1940. Here we had a heel of a hero who sleeps with a wealthy older woman in order to realize his dream of owning his own ... TaglineFrom Your Pal, Columbia! JOY STORY OF JOEY...(the heel)! DiscographySinglesDo it the Hard Way Happy Hunting Horn Plant You Now, Dig You Later Take Him A Great Big Town Bewitched I Could Write a Book I Didn`t Know What Time it Was My Funny Valentine That Terrific Rainbow The Lady is a Tramp There`s a Small Hotel What Do I Care for a Dame Zip |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Joey Evans: Good Morning!
Linda English: What`s good about it?
Joey Evans: First hangover? Well, there`s a first time for everything.
Linda English: Why do people drink when you feel so awful the morning after?
Joey Evans: Maybe because it feels so good the night before.
Joey Evans: The only thing I`m superstitious about is 13 in a bed.
Linda English: I`m never drinking again.
Joey Evans: First hangover?
Linda English: Why does it feel so bad?
Joey Evans: It only feels so bad in the morning cause it feels so good the night before.
Linda English: My mother always says a lady`s a lady wherever she goes
Joey Evans: And a bum`s a bum wherever he goes.
Linda English: What did I do last night?
Joey Evans: You kissed me.
Linda English: I wasn`t myself.
Joey Evans: Whoever you were, you were great!
Vera Simpson: Me and Joey are the same type of cat, we understand each other.
Vera Simpson: Who`s she?
Joey Evans: She`s just a mouse.
Trivia After Harry Cohn saw the success of the Gene Kelly/Rita Hayworth team in the musical Cover Girl (1944), the two were promised this film. Sadly, it took another 15 years for it to reach the screen, and by that time Kelly, whose star-making role was in the original 1940 Broadway production, was bound to MGM and Hayworth was given the role of the older woman, with Kim Novak now playing the younger woman. Billy Wilder was the original choice to direct. He discussed it with Columbia studio head Harry Cohn over lunch one day. Not only did Cohn turn down him as director, but he later sent Wilder a bill for their lunch. Columbia Studios head Harry Cohn suggested Marlene Dietrich for the role of Vera Simpson. Dietrich turned down the part but suggested her friend Frank Sinatra for the role of Joey after Gene Kelly was denied the part. Cohn suggested `Jack Lemmon` before Sinatra was eventually cast. Pal Joey opened at Ethel Barrymore Theater on December 25, 1940 and ran for 374 performances.
Rita Hayworth plays the rich older woman keeping Frank Sinatra as her boy toy. In real life, Hayworth was only in her late thirties when she made this film and was three years younger than Sinatra. | ||
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