Girl Crazy
Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Release Year: 1943
Country: USA
Runtime: 99
Rating: 6 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Norman TaurogBusby Berkeley Sound: Mono
Taglines: LOVE OR LUNACY? Its the wild cry of a "girl-crazy" cowboy...but one clear-eyed daughter of the west ropes and ties him!The Big Musical with Broadway Flair and a Western Air! Writing by: Guy Bolton - (musical play) and
Jack McGowan - (musical play)
Fred F. Finklehoffe - (screenplay)
Dorothy Kingsley - contributing writer (uncredited)
William Ludwig - contributing writer (uncredited)
Sid Silvers - uncredited
Produced by: Arthur Freed - producer
Cast: Mickey Rooney - Danny Churchill, Jr.
Judy Garland - Ginger Gray
Gil Stratton - Bud Livermore
Robert E. Strickland - Henry Lathrop
Rags Ragland - Rags (as Rags Ragland)
June Allyson - Specialty Singer
Nancy Walker - Polly Williams
Guy Kibbee - Dean Phineas Armour
Frances Rafferty - Marjorie Tait
Henry ONeill - Mr. Danny Churchill, Sr.
Howard Freeman - Governor Tait
Music: Richard Hayman Official Website: Visit WebsitePlot Outline: Rich kid Danny Churchill (Rooney) has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education...
Plot: Rich kid Danny Churchill (Rooney) has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where theres not supposed to be a female for miles. But before Danny arrives, he spies a pair of legs extending out from under a stalled roadster. They belong to the Deans granddaughter, Ginger Gray (Garland), who is more interested in keeping the financially strapped college open than falling for Dannys romantic line. At least at first...
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The end credits show what happen to the real people portrayed in the film.
Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Crew or equipment visible: When Ginger arrives at the college and sees Danny get put onto a horse by some of the students to ride off to a campfire, there seems to be a trainer squatted behind an abandoned carriage cuing the horses.
Trivia: There are 6 entries in the trivia list - like these:
- Judy Garlands characters name, Ginger Gray, is a tribute to Ginger Rogers, who had the part on Broadway when the character was named Molly Gray.
- In the finale of the movie, a musical scene entitled "I Got Rhythm" Ginger Gray (played by Judy Garland) and Danny Churchill Jr. (played by Mickey Rooney) are lifted by a group of cowboys, while guns were going off around them. Garland was terribly afraid to do this shot, and Rooney had to coax her into it.
- The musical play opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 14 October 1930 and had 272 performances. The leads were played by Ginger Rogers and Allen Kearns, but the cast also included Ethel Merman in her first Broadway production. She was featured in the "I Got Rhythm" number.
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