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Big City

BIG CITY

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CREDITS

1948, 103 minutes, B&W.
Producer, Joe Pasternak; Director, Norman Taurog; Screenplay, Whitfield Cook and Ann Morrison; Cinematography, Robert Surtees; Choreography, Stanley Donen; Music Direction, Georgie Stoll.

CAST

Midge, Margaret O'Brien; Reverend Andrews, Robert Preston; Mr. Feldman, Danny Thomas; Patrick O'Donnell, George Murphy; Florence, Karin Booth; Louis Keller, Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins; Miss Grady, Betty Garrett; mrs. Feldman, Lotte Lehmann; Judge Abercrombie, Edward Arnold; Martha, Connie Gilchrist; Themselves, The Page Cavanaugh Trio.

SONGS

Ok'l Baby Dok'l by Inez James and Sidney Miller; God Bless America; What'll I Do? by Irving Berlin; The Kerry Dance by James Lyman Molloy; Shoo Shoo Baby by Phil Moore; I'm Gonna See A Lot of You by Janice Torre and Fred Spielman; Don't Blame Me by Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh; Yippee-O-Yippee-Ay Ay by Jerry Seelen and Walter Pepp; Brahm's Lullaby.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

". . .Big City was the sentimental story of an orphan [O'Brien] who finds herself adopted by a Jewish cantor (Danny Thomas), a Protestant minister (Robert Preston) and an Irish-Catholic cop (George Murphy). . .Conflict intruded when cop Murphy marries saloon singer Betty Garrett and has the unpopular notion of supplying Miss O'Brien with a bona fide mother."
Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

NOTES

". . .as produced by Joe Pasternak, in whose world everything had to be sweetness and light. And musical. Hence little Margaret (dubbed by Marni Nixon) trilled away in company with opera star Lotte Lehmann. . ."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"Latter-day star vehicle for which the young star is really too old and all else is excessively sentimental and sprawling."
- Halliwell's Film Guide


This was Betty Garrett's film debut.

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