Variety Girl

Variety Girl

Infobox Film
name = Variety Girl


image_size = 150px
caption =
director = George Marshall
producer = Daniel Dare
writer = Monte Brice
Edmund L. Hartmann
Frank Tashlin
Robert L. Welch
starring = Mary Hatcher
Olga San Juan
DeForest Kelley
Frank Ferguson
Glenn Tyron
Nella Walker
Torben Meyer
Jack Norton
William Demarest
music = Johnny Burke
Jimmy Mulcay
Mildred Mulcay
Edward H. Plumb
cinematography = Lionel Lindon
Stuart Thompson
editing = LeRoy Stone
distributor = Paramount Pictures
released = 24 August 1947
runtime = 93 mins
country = United States
language = English
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0039951

"Variety Girl" (1947) is an all-star movie musical produced by Paramount Pictures. Numerous Paramount contract players and directors make cameos or perform songs, with particularly large amounts of screen time featuring Bing Crosby. The story revolves around two young girls who exchange identities, causing confusion at the Variety Club (show-business charity) and the Paramount studio.

The elaborate closing song, "Harmony," begins with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope singing and dancing on stage in matching checkered suits and straw hats, eventually moves to a merry-go-round with Gary Cooper in cowboy regalia seated on a plastic horse while talking through a couple of stanzas with Barry Fitzgerald, then gradually incorporates the entire cast, which includes almost everyone under contract to Paramount at the time, in a rousing finale launched by William Holden and Ray Milland chasing a scantily-clad woman across a soundstage.

Cast

*Mary Hatcher as Catherine Brown
*Olga San Juan as Amber La Vonne
*DeForest Kelley as Bob Kirby
*Frank Ferguson as R.J. O'Connell
*Glenn Tyron as Bill Farris
*Nella Walker as Mrs. Webster
*Torben Meyer as Andre
*Jack Norton as Busboy at Brown Derby
*William Demarest as Barker

Celebrity appearances

*Bing Crosby
*Bob Hope
*Gary Cooper
*Ray Milland
*Alan Ladd
*Barbara Stanwyck
*Paulette Goddard
*Dorothy Lamour
*Sonny Tufts
*Joan Caulfield
*William Holden
*Lizabeth Scott
*Burt Lancaster
*Gail Russell
*Diana Lynn
*Sterling Hayden
*Robert Preston
*Veronica Lake
*John Lund
*William Bendix
*Barry Fitzgerald
*Howard Da Silva
*Macdonald Carey
*Cass Daley
*Patric Knowles
*Mona Freeman
*Cecil Kellaway
*Virginia Field
*Richard Webb
*Frank Faylen
*Cecil B. DeMille
*Mitchell Leisen
*George Marshall
*Pearl Bailey
*Paula Raymond
*George Reeves
*Wanda Hendrix
*Stanley Clements
*Walter Abel
*Pinto Colvig
*Spike Jones & His City Slickers

External links

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