Calendar Girl (1947)

Director:

Allan Dwan

Writers:

Lee Loeb (story)
Lee Loeb (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

31 January 1947 (USA)

Genre:

Musical | Romance

Plot:

A songwriter finds out that his beautiful girlfriend is going to be an artist's model.

Plot Keywords:

Songwriter | Composer | Male Female Relationship | Calendar | Mayor

Cast

Jane Frazee	...	Patricia O'Neill
William Marshall	...	Johnny Bennett
Gail Patrick	...	Olivia Radford
Kenny Baker	...	Byron Jones
Victor McLaglen	...	Matthew O'Neill
Irene Rich	...	Lulu Varden
James Ellison	...	Steve Adams
Janet Martin	...	Tessie
Franklin Pangborn	...	'Dilly' Dillingsworth
Gus Schilling	...	Ed Gaskin
Charles Arnt	...	Capt. Olsen
Lou Nova	...	Clancy
Emory Parnell	...	The Mayor
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Wanita Charles	...	Juanita

Also Known As:

Star Dust and Sweet Music (USA) (reissue title)

Runtime:

88 min | USA:60 min (1951 re-release)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:Approved

Company:

Republic Pictures (I)

Soundtrack:

In The Hall of the Mountain King (from Peer Gynt)

A light and fun musical set at the turn of the century, 1900.

This is not a well known musical but includes several excellent songs written by Jimmy McHugh. The principal vocalists include Bill Marshall, Jane Frazee, Janet Martin and specially Kenny Baker. The latter's tenor is shown off to good effect and he is capably joined in duets with Janet Martin, one of the several young players under contract to Republic who disappeared with the decline in the studio system. It is a multi-star cast including Victor McLaglen as a Fire Chief, Irene Rich as a Boarding House owner, Gail Patrick as a wealthy Bostononian and James Ellison. The story involves the trials of young hopefuls in the music/dance world, Martin, Frazee, Marshall, etc. and Ellison, a wealthy young artist from Boston. Martin plays a predatory female after Baker a young song plugger while there is a triangular mixup between Frazee and two potential suitors, Marshall and Ellison and Patrick. Highly recommended as a much better than average small musical from Hollywood just before television started to cut into the profits of the movie studios.