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The Hollywood Musical: For Me and My Gal

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on BBC Two England

A selection of musical milestones from the golden days of the silver screen

Tonight: the 1942 production For Me and My Gal
Starring Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, George Murphy
with Marta Eggerth, Ben Blue, Horace McNally

This week's Hollywood Musical is a song-packed story of love and heartbreaks for a couple of vaudeville entertainers before World War I.
"For Me and My Gal" was Gene Kelly's first screen role, and the part of the brash Harry Palmer is eminently suitable for his talents. The film also provided Judy Garland with her first grown-up part after her adolescent partnership with Mickey Rooney.
Also in the cast is Richard Quine, now a talented director whose credits include "How to Murder Your Wife"; "The World of Suzie Wong"; "Bell, Book, and Candle."

Contributors

Screenplay:
Richard Sherman
Screenplay:
Fred Finklehoffe
Screenplay:
Sid Silvers
Producer:
Arthur Freed
Director:
Busby Berkeley
Jo Hayden:
Judy Garland
Jimmy K. Metcalfe:
George Murphy
Harry Palmer:
Gene Kelly
Eve Minard:
Marta Eggerth
Sid Simms:
Ben Blue
Bert Waring:
Horace McNally
Danny Hayden:
Richard Quine
Lily:
Lucille Norman
Eddie:
Keenan Wynn
Source: Radio Times

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