TWO GIRLS AND A SAILOR

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CREDITS

1944, 124 minutes, B&W.
Producer, Joe Pasternak; Director, Richard Thorpe; Screenplay, Richard Connell and Gladys Lehman; Cinematography, Robert Surtees; Music Direction, George Stoll; Choreography, Sammy Lee.

CAST

John Dyckman Brown III, Van Johnson; Patsy Deyo, June Allyson; Jean Deyo, Gloria DeHaven; Jose Iturbi, Himself; Billy Kipp, Jimmy Durante; Gracie Allen, Herself; Lena Horne, Herself; Frank Miller, Tom Drake; John Dyckman Brown I, Henry Stephenson; John Dyckman Brown II, Henry O'Neill; The Wilde Twins; Harry James and His Orchestra; Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra.

SONGS

Paper Doll by Johnny Black; Take It Easy by Albert De Bru, Irving Taylor and Vic Mizzy; Ritual Fire Dance by de Falla; Inka Dinka Doo by Jimmy Durante and Ben Ryan; My Mother Told Me; In a Moment of Madness by Ralph Freed and Jimmy McHugh; A Love Like Ours by Mann Holiner and Alberta Nichols; Young Man with a Horn by Freed and George Stoll; Sweet and Lovely by Gus Arnheim, Jules Lemare and Harry Tobias; Granada by Dorothy Dodd and Augustin Lara; Estrellita by Manuel Ponce and Frank LaForge; A-Tisket-A-Tasket by Al Feldman and Ella Fitzgerald; Did You Ever Have That Feeling? ; Castles in the Air; Who Will Be With You When I'm Far Away by Durante; Flash by Harry James; Charmaine by Erno Rapee and Lew Pollack; Babalu by Bob Russell and Marguerita Lecuona; The Thrill of a New Romance by Xavier Cugat and Harold Adamson; You Dear by Freed and Sammy Fain; Dardanella by Fred Fisher, Felix Berard and Johnny Black; My Wonderful One Let's Dance by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown; Concerto for Index Finger (Chopsticks).

PLOT SYNOPSIS

"In their first leading roles, June Allyson and Gloria DeHaven are delightfully enchanting as Patsy and Jean Deyo, a singing-dancing sister act. The girls entertain servicemen at their 'home canteen' when they are not headlining the New York Club Floriano. But when handsome sailor John Brown (Van Johnson) introduces himself, their dreams really start coming true. Soon after, a mysterious 'somebody' buys the girls an empty warehouse, where they open up the ideal canteen."
- Liner Notes from MGM/Turner Laserdisc

NOTES

". . .one of the year's better musicals. . ."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"Loosely-linked wartime musical jamboree with first-class talent; a lively entertainment of its type."
- Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Film Guide

ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATION:
Writing (Original Screenplay)

Two Girls And A Sailor was one of the top-grossing films of 1944. See Box Office Hits

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