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Anchors Aweigh

ANCHORS AWEIGH

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CREDITS

1945, 140 minutes, Technicolor.
Producer, Joe Pasternak; Director, George Sidney; Screenplay, Isobel Lennart; Cinematography, Robert Planck and Charles Boyle; Music Direction, Georgie Stoll; Choreography, Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen.

CAST

Joe Brady, Gene Kelly; Clarence Doolittle, Frank Sinatra; Susan Abbott, Kathryn Grayson; Jose Iturbi, Himself; Donald Martin, Dean Stockwell; Carlos, Carlos Ramirez; Admiral Hammond, Henry O'Neill; Commander, Leon Ames; Police Sergeant, Rags Ragland; Police Captain, Edgar Kennedy; Girl from Brooklyn, Pamela Britton; Cafe Manager, Billy Gilbert; Little Girl Beggar, Sharon McManus.

SONGS

We Hate To Leave; What Makes The Sun Set?; The Charm Of You; I Begged Her; I Fall In Love Too Easily by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn; The Worry Song by Ralph Freed and Sammy Fain; All Of A Sudden My Heart Sings by Herpin (English lyric by Harold Rome); Jalousie by Jacob Gade and Vera Bloom; The Donkey Serenade by Rudolf Friml, Bob Wright and Chet Forrest; If You Knew Susie by Joseph Meyer and Buddy DeSylva, new lyrics by Sammy Cahn); Anchors Aweigh by Alfred H. Miles, Royal Lovell and Charles A. Zimmerman; Brahm's Lullaby; Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody; Waltz Serenade by Tchaikovsky; Largo Al Factotum by Rossini; La Cumparsita by G.H. Matos Rodriguez; Mexican Hat Dance.

PLOT

". . .Sinatra plays a girl-shy (!) gob from Brooklyn whom Kelly, a seasoned salt, takes in hand to teach the fine art of making out with girls. Before their girl-hunt can get underway, however, they are saddled with an appealing youngster (Dean Stockwell), who has run away from home to join the Navy. Returning the boy to his home, they meet his knock-out aunt (Kathryn Grayson), a singer whose ambition is to audition for famed conductor-pianist Jose Iturbi. To impress the girl, the smitten gobs pretend to know the musician and promise to set up an introduction."
- Lawrence B. Thomas, THE MGM YEARS

NOTES

"A shore-leave saga with music, dancing, and Technicolor's full palette. . .easily the pleasantest couple of hours that can be bought currently in a movie theater."
- Time Magazine

"Anchors Aweigh is solid musical fare. The production numbers are zingy; the songs are extremely listenable; the color treatment outstanding."
- Variety

ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS:
Best Picture
Best Actor - Gene Kelly
Cinematography (Color)
Song - "I Fall In Love Too Easily"

ACADEMY AWARD WINNER:
Scoring Of A Musical Picture

#3 - NEW YORK TIMES ANNUAL TEN BEST LIST

HARVARD LAMPOON WORST FILM AWARD WINNER

Anchors Aweigh was the 2nd highest-grossing film of 1945. See Box Office Hits

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