Girl Crazy (1943)

Movie
Original title	Girl crazy
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1943
length	99 minutes
Rod
Director	Norman Taurog , Busby Berkeley
production	Arthur Freed
music	George Gershwin , Ira Gershwin
camera	William H. Daniels , Robert H. Planck
cut	Albert Akst
occupation
Judy Garland : Ginger Gray Mickey Rooney : Danny Churchill, Jr. Gil Stratton : Bud Livermore Robert E. Strickland : Henry Lathrop June Allyson : singer Nancy Walker : Polly Williams Rags Ragsland : Rags Guy Kibbee : Dean Phineas Armor Frances Rafferty : Marjorie Tait Howard Freeman : Governor Tait Henry O'Neill : Danny Churchill, Sr. Tommy Dorsey : himself (band leader)

Girl Crazy is an American film musical by the MGM film studio from 1943 , based on George Gershwin 's Broadway template of the same name . The first film adaptation of the material was made in 1932 by William A. Seiter . However, the 1943 remake describes a completely different storyline.

action

Danny Churchill Jr., a wealthy young playboy , is sent to a mining school in the western United States by his father to give up his dissolute life and learn something decent. There he meets the resolute but lovesick Ginger Gray, who in the first film from 1932 still had the job as a postman in the remote town, but here is the daughter of the school principal, with whom Danny falls in love immediately. On the occasion of a competition organized by Danny to choose a rodeo queen, Ginger and her competitor Marjorie Tait, who also has a crush on Danny, meet. Danny, who is basically an altruistic person despite his bravado, wants more young students to attend the crisis school through such events. In the end everyone celebrates, is happy and married. All the complications of the plot are only designed to lead into the grandiose musical finale with the well-known song I Got Rhythm .

background

During the beginning of the shooting days, arguments arose between Busby Berkeley and music arranger Roger Edens . Berkeley, always known for his flamboyant dance numbers, called for a big western-style final number, while Edens wanted a simpler, rhythmic musical number. Roger Edens threatened to resign, whereupon producer Arthur Freed dismissed Berkeley, not least because of the disputes between the director and Judy Garland .

reception

The film cost $ 1,410,850 and grossed $ 3,771,000 for MGM studios.

Web links

• Girl Crazy in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ website Rotten Tomatoes with a synopsis of the film (accessed 29 November 2015)
2. ↑ Sequence from the film with the song I Got Rhythm
3. ↑ ^{a b} Fordin, Hugh The world of Entertainment! New York, 1975