Complete credited cast: | |||
Mickey Rooney | ... | Danny Churchill Jr. | |
Judy Garland | ... | Ginger Gray | |
Gil Stratton | ... | Bud Livermore | |
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Robert E. Strickland | ... | Henry Lathrop |
Rags Ragland | ... | 'Rags' (as 'Rags' Ragland) | |
June Allyson | ... | Specialty | |
Nancy Walker | ... | Polly Williams | |
Guy Kibbee | ... | Dean Phineas Armour | |
Frances Rafferty | ... | Marjorie Tait | |
Henry O'Neill | ... | Mr. Churchill Sr. | |
Howard Freeman | ... | Governor Tait | |
Tommy Dorsey | ... | Tommy Dorsey | |
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | ... | Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra (as Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra) | |
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Six Hits and a Miss | ... | Vocalists |
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The Music Maids | ... | The Music Maids |
Rich kid Danny Churchill (Rooney) has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to be a female for miles. But before Danny arrives, he spies a pair of legs extending out from under a stalled roadster. They belong to the Dean's granddaughter, Ginger Gray (Garland), who is more interested in keeping the financially strapped college open than falling for Danny's romantic line. At least at first... Written by Shawn Ashley
Lively musical, but what else can you expect from those two sparkplugs, Garland and Rooney. Actually, Rooney is more restrained than usual which helps. Garland is in fine form, especially with the Embraceable You number, which is also very well staged and choreographed. I like the western setting, unusual for an A-musical, but it works. However, the curtain-closing I Got Rhythm appears over-done, especially the six-gun fusillade. Then too, those marching phalanxes of cowboys and girls are unmistakably Busby Berkeley at work. The plot's a typical Let's Put on a Show, only this time it's to rescue a college's floundering enrollment. The show's also a good excuse to parade around a lot of statuesque beauties, but who's complaining. Too bad, this was the dynamic duo's last pairing— together they certainly light up the screen.