Lucille Ball accepts a cadet's invitation to a military academy's senior prom in order to boost her career.Lucille Ball accepts a cadet's invitation to a military academy's senior prom in order to boost her career.Lucille Ball accepts a cadet's invitation to a military academy's senior prom in order to boost her career.
Bob Stebbins
- Greenie
- (as Bobby Stebbins)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFilm debut of Nancy Walker and first full-length feature of June Allyson who reprise their roles from the Broadway play upon which this film is based.
- GoofsJune Allyson is credited onscreen as Minerva and Gloria DeHaven as Ethel. However, Allyson is called Ethel and DeHaven is called Minerva and 'Min' in the film.
- Quotes
Lucille Ball: [as she steps off the train at Winsocki, encounteirng nobody but a barking dog] My public!
- Alternate versionsThe DVD release of the movie includes a 4 minute Overture and a 2 minute Exit Music.
- ConnectionsFeatured in That's Entertainment! III (1994)
- SoundtracksBuckle Down, Winsocki
(1941)
Music and Lyrics by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane
Performed by the MGM Studio Orchestra and chorus during the opening credits
Reprised at the prom
Reprised at the graduation in the finale, and performed by Tommy Dix and chorus
Featured review
I miss movies like this.
When this first came out in the theater and I saw it then, there was a military academy in the town where I lived. And I was just going into high school. I thought this movie was the greatest thing I had ever seen, maybe the greatest movie ever made. I felt like it had been made especially for me, my friends and our local cadets. And the song, Buckle Down Winsocki was absolutely the best fight song in the world. I realize now that the movie probably wasn't that good, it was trite and predictable, as well as being juvenile. It still thrills me, and the memories that I have of that time all come back when I watch this movie again. I'm not capable of seeing it from any other point of view, so I am going to give this a 10, just for old times' sake.
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- Apr 5, 2005
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- Det spritter i benen
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- $1,162,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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