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CAST
1943, 99 minutes, B&W.
Producer, Arthur Freed; Director, Norman Taurog; Screenplay, Fred Finklehoffe; Music Direction, George Stoll; Choreography, Charles Walters and Busby Berkeley, and Jack Donohue.
CAST
Danny Churchill, Jr., Mickey Rooney; Ginger Gray, Judy Garland; Bud Livermore, Gil Stratton; Henry Lathop, Robert E. Strickland; Rags, Rags Ragland; Polly Williams, Nancy Walker; Dean Phineas Armour, Guy Kibbee; Marjorie Tait, Frances Rafferty; Boy, Peter Lawford; Specialty, June Allyson; Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra.
SONGS
Treat Me Rough; I Got Rhythm; Embraceable You; But Not for Me; Bidin' My Time; Could You Use Me?; Fascinatin' Rhythm; Cactus Time in Arizona; Bronco Busters by George and Ira Gershwin; Happy Birthday Ginger by Roger Edens.
PLOT SYNOPSIS
"As Danny Churchill, Rooney is a rich kid with a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him way out west to an all-male college. But before Danny arrives at school, the first sign of life he sees is a pair of legs protruding out from under a stalled roadster. Even in overalls, those legs couldn't belong to anyone but Judy Garland. She's Ginger Gray, the dean's granddaughter, who is much more interested in helping her grandfather keep his college from folding than in falling for Danny's romantic repartee."
- Liner Notes from MGM/Turner Laserdisc
NOTES
"Girl Crazy was one of the year's best musicals and a much more beguiling entertainment than the earlier version of it made in 1932 by RKO. . .Gershwin never had it so good."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical
"Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland are back in town. And if at this late date there are still a few die-hards who deny that they are the most incorrigibly talented pair of youngsters in the movies, then Girl Crazy should serve as the final rebuttal."
- The New York Times
"In its own terms, the movie - the eighth Garland and Rooney had made together - is just about irresistible."
- Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights At The Movies
Girl Crazy was one of the top-grossing films of 1943. See Box Office Hits
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