I'll Get By (film)

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Movie
Original title I'll get by
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1950
length 83 minutes
Rod
Director Richard Sale
script Robert Ellis
production William Perlberg
music Cyril J. Mockridge
camera Charles G. Clarke
cut J. Watson Webb Jr.
occupation

I'll Get By is an American film directed by Richard Sale from 1950 . The romantic musical film in Technicolor is a remake of the movie Tin Pan Alley of 1940. I'll Get By has been in the category Best Original Score for the Oscars 1951 nominations, but otherwise received as a Tin Pan Alley 1941 the Oscar not.

action

Freddy Lee and William Spencer are not very successful songwriters. To make their songs better known, they commission the sisters Terry and Liza Martin to play songs like Deep in the Heart of Texas and You Make Me Feel So Young with their band. Men fall in love with women, but ultimately have to choose between them and success.

background

Gloria DeHaven had just switched from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , I'll Get By was her first film for 20th Century Fox . June Haver , who played her sister, was going through a difficult time personally: her fiancé had died in an operation the year before and she had turned to Catholicism. She went on a pilgrimage to Rome in 1950 and was to enter a monastery in Kansas for a few months a few years later . I'll Get By was just one of four films she made during the 1950s .

The film includes cameo -Auftritte of Jeanne Crain and Victor Mature .

reception

TV Guide ruled that the constant use of songs would hide the plot into obscurity.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ronald Bergan, Gloria DeHaven obituary , The Guardian, August 1, 2016.
  2. Tom Vallance, June Haver , The Independent, July 7, 2005.
  3. June Haver: Actress Became Nun & Major Fox Musical Star , Alt Film Guide.
  4. ^ Brian Mills, 101 Forgotten Films , Oldacastle Books, 2008, ISBN 978-1-84243-390-4 .
  5. ^ I´ll Get By , TV Guide.