Three Sailors and a Girl

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Three Sailors and a Girl

Directed by	Roy Del Ruth
Produced by	Sammy Cahn
Written by	Devery Freeman Roland Kibbee George S. Kaufman (play)
Starring	Jane Powell Gordon MacRae Gene Nelson
Studio	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	November 23, 1953
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Three Sailors and a Girl is a 1953 musical film made by Warner Bros.. It was directed by Roy Del Ruth, and written by Devery Freeman and Roland Kibbee, based on the George S. Kaufman play The Butter and Egg Man. Three United States Navy sailors invest their pay in a musical.

Plot [edit]

While their submarine is docked in New York City, three sailors on liberty invest the money they've earned at sea into a broadway musical and its up and coming star.

Cast [edit]

Jane Powell as Penny Weston
Gordon MacRae as "Choirboy" Jones
Gene Nelson as Twitch
Sam Levene as Joe Woods
Jack E. Leonard as Porky
George Givot as Emilio Rossi
Veda Ann Borg as Faye Foss
Archer MacDonald as Webster
Raymond Greenleaf as Morrow
Henry Slate as Hank the Sailor

Burt Lancaster made an uncredited cameo appearance at the end, playing a Marine who hesitantly asks about taking over the starring role in the musical after Jones has to return to the Navy. Joe Woods brushes him off. When a woman asks why he was so brusque, Joe tells her that the Marine looked too much like Burt Lancaster.

External links [edit]

Three Sailors and a Girl at the Internet Movie Database
Three Sailors and a Girl at AllRovi
Three Sailors and a Girl at the TCM Movie Database
Three Sailors and a Girl at the British Film Institute's Film and TV Database

v t e Films directed by Roy Del Ruth

1920s	Three Weeks in Paris (1925) Hogan's Alley (1925) The Little Irish Girl (1926) Across the Pacific (1926) The First Auto (1927) The Terror (1928) The Desert Song (1929) Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) The Aviator (1929)

1930s	The Second Floor Mystery (1930) Hold Everything (1930) The Life of the Party (1930) Divorce Among Friends (1930) The Maltese Falcon (1931) Side Show (1931) Blonde Crazy (1931) Taxi! (1932) Winner Take All (1932) Blessed Event (1932) Employees' Entrance (1933) Captured! (1933) Bureau of Missing Persons (1933) Lady Killer (1933) Upper World (1934) Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934) Kid Millions (1934) Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) Thanks a Million (1935) Private Number (1936) It Had to Happen (1936) Born to Dance (1936) On the Avenue (1937) Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937) Tail Spin (1939)

1940s	He Married His Wife (1940) Topper Returns (1941) The Chocolate Soldier (1941) Maisie Gets Her Man (1942) DuBarry Was a Lady (1943) Broadway Rhythm (1944) Barbary Coast Gent (1944) It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947) The Babe Ruth Story (1948) Red Light (1949) Always Leave Them Laughing (1949)

1950s	The West Point Story (1950) On Moonlight Bay (1951) Starlift (1951) About Face (1952) Stop, You're Killing Me (1952) Three Sailors and a Girl (1953) Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954) The Alligator People (1959)

1960s	Why Must I Die? (1960)