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IT HAPPENED IN BROOKLYN
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CREDITS
1947, 103 minutes, B&W.
Producer, Jack Cummings; Director, Richard Thorpe; Screenplay, Isobel Lennart; Cinematography, Robert Planck; Music Direction, Johnny Green; Choreography, Jack Donohue.
CAST
Danny Webson Miller, Frank Sinatra; Anne Fielding, Kathryn Grayson; Jamie Shellgreve, Peter Lawford; Nick Lombardi, Jimmy Durante; Nurse, Gloria Grahame; Rae Jakobi, Marcy McGuire.
SONGS
Time After Time; The Song's Gotta Come from the Heart; Brooklyn Bridge; It's the Same Old Dream; I Believe; Whose Baby Are You? by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn; La Ci Darem La Mano by Mozart; The Bell Song by Delibes.
PLOT SYNOPSIS
" 'Everybody is miserable in Brooklyn!' declares Anne Fielding, a pretty music teacher. . .Anne (Grayson) has to teach music because her opera career started off on the wrong note. Army private Danny Miller (Sinatra) is too shy to let anyone hear him sing. Jamie (Lawford), an English duke's grandson, is too stuffy to fit in. And Nick (Durante), the janitor, has never known love. But they all discover anything is possible if they believe in each other and the spirit of Brooklyn."
Liner Notes from Turner/MGM/UA Laserdisc
NOTES
"Aside from Sinatra and Durante the show amounts to practically nothing, but there is a general kindliness about it which I enjoyed."
- James Agee
"Well-handled routine musical of its time."
- Halliwell's Film Guide
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