Girl Crazy (1943 film)

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name = Girl Crazy


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director = Norman Taurog
Busby Berkeley
producer = Arthur Freed
writer = Guy Bolton (play)
Jack McGowan (play)
Fred F. Finklehoffe
Dorothy Kingsley (uncredited)
William Ludwig (uncredited)
Sid Silvers (uncredited)
starring = Mickey Rooney
Judy Garland
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released = November 26, 1943
runtime = 99 minutes
country = USA
language = English
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amg_id = 1:19801
imdb_id = 0035942In 1943, Metro Goldwyn Mayer produced "Girl Crazy", a lavish musical film version of the stage play of the same name, starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in their ninth of ten pairings. This was also June Allyson's feature film debut.

Production began with Busby Berkeley as director, but Berkeley was fired after continued run-ins with Garland. An elaborate production number set to "I Got Rhythm" was his only major contribution to the film. Norman Taurog, who went on to direct Elvis Presley's rock and roll musicals, took over.

Cast

*Mickey Rooney as Danny Churchill, Jr.
*Judy Garland as Ginger Gray
*Gil Stratton as Bud Livermore
*Robert E. Strickland as Henry Lathrop
*Rags Ragland as Rags
*June Allyson as Specialty Singer
*Nancy Walker as Polly Williams
*Guy Kibbee as Dean Phineas Armour
*Frances Rafferty as Marjorie Tait
*Henry O'Neill as Danny Churchill, Sr.
*Howard Freeman as Governor Tait
*Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra as themselves

DVD release

"Girl Crazy" was released on DVD for the first time as part of Warner Bros. five-disc DVD set "The Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland Collection" on September 25, 2007. The set contains "Girl Crazy", "Babes in Arms", "Babes on Broadway", and "Strike Up the Band". A fifth bonus disc includes one number ("I Got Rhythm") in stereo, although stereo tracks exist for all the film's musical numbers. MGM technicians transferred the original multi-channel optical film tracks to 1/4" audiotape when ordered to destroy all the elements in the early 1950s; these surviving tracks were released on a stereo CD in 1995.

External links

*tcmdb title|id=12588|title=Girl Crazy
* [http://www.thejudyroom.com/discography/soundtracks/girlcrazy.html The Judy Garland Online Discography for "Girl Crazy"]