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For Me And My Gal
Screening: Monday 24 July, 6:30pm
USA
1942
Director: Busby Berkeley
Production co: Loew's Incorporated, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Producers: Arthur Freed
Screenplay: Richard Sherman, Fred Finklehoffe, Sid Silvers.
Based on a story by Howard Emmett Rogers
Cinematography: William Daniels
Editor: Ben Lewis
Sound: Douglas Shearer
Jo Hayden: Judy Garland
Jimmy Metcalf: George Murphy
Harry Palmer: Gene Kelly
Eve Minard: Marta Eggerth
Sid Simms: Ben Blue
Mr Waring: Horace McNally
104 mins
B & W
16mm
certificate TBA
ADMISSION STRICTLY MEMBERS ONLY
...reputedly Busby Berkeley’s favorite among his own films, [For Me and My Girl] marked an exciting film debut for Gene Kelly, and a new pinnacle of stardom for Judy Garland. Made during the early days of WWII, it’s a nostalgic foray into the pre-WWI, golden days of vaudeville, with a wonderful period flavor (and patriotic undertones). The story is simple enough – Gene Kelly is a heel, Judy Garland is in love with him, and George Murphy is waiting like a patient pet in the wings – but the talents of Garland and Kelly combine to make it persuasive. And as a song and dance team, these two were more than persuasive, they were positively historic. – Pacific Film Archive
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