Present Arms (musical)

*Present Arms*
Present Arms
Book	Herbert Fields
Productions	1928 Broadway

Present Arms is a

Lew Fields' Mansfield Theatre, which today is known as the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Present Arms was filmed in 1930 with Irene Dunne, with its title changed to Leathernecking

. The film is presumed lost.

Plot

The show starred

Charles King, Flora Le Breton, Joyce Barbour and Busby Berkeley

. A man from Brooklyn is serving as a buck private in Pearl Harbor. He flirts with an English Peer's daughter; however, she is being pursued by a German, who raises pineapples in Hawaii. The Brooklynite pretends to be a Captain in order to make an impression, but he is found out, booted out, and loses out on the girl, until he proves himself in a shipwreck.

Songs

Act One

"Tell It to the Marines"

"You Took Advantage of Me"
"Do I Hear You (Saying I Love You)?"
"A Kiss for Cinderella"
"Is It the Uniform?"
"Crazy Elbows"

Act Two

"Down By the Sea"
"I'm a Fool for You (I'm a Fool, Little One)"
"Blue Ocean Blues"
"Hawaii"
"Kohala, Welcome"

External links

Present Arms at the Internet Broadway Database
Overview of show

v t e Rodgers and Hart
Richard Rodgers Lorenz Hart
Musicals	Fly with Me Poor Little Ritz Girl The Garrick Gaieties Dearest Enemy The Girl Friend Peggy-Ann A Connecticut Yankee Present Arms Chee-Chee Ever Green Simple Simon America's Sweetheart Jumbo On Your Toes Babes in Arms I'd Rather Be Right The Boys from Syracuse I Married an Angel Too Many Girls Higher and Higher Pal Joey By Jupiter
Songs	"Manhattan" "Mountain Greenery" "Here in My Arms" "Blue Room" "My Heart Stood Still" "Thou Swell" "To Keep My Love Alive" "You Took Advantage of Me" "With a Song in My Heart" " A Ship Without a Sail " "Dancing on the Ceiling" "Ten Cents a Dance" "He Was Too Good to Me" "I've Got Five Dollars" "Isn't It Romantic?" "Lover" "Mimi" "You Are Too Beautiful" "Blue Moon" "It's Easy to Remember (And So Hard to Forget)" "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" "My Romance" "Little Girl Blue" "There's a Small Hotel" "Glad to Be Unhappy" "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" "Where or When" "I Wish I Were in Love Again" "My Funny Valentine" "Johnny One Note" "The Lady Is a Tramp" "Have You Met Miss Jones?" "I'll Tell the Man in the Street" "Spring Is Here" "Falling in Love with Love" "This Can't Be Love" "Sing for Your Supper" "I Like to Recognize the Tune" "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" "Give It Back to the Indians" "You're Nearer" "It Never Entered My Mind" "I Could Write a Book" "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" "Ev'rything I've Got" "Wait till You See Her"

v t e Busby Berkeley
Broadway plays choreographed	A Connecticut Yankee (1927) Present Arms (1928) Sweet and Low (1930)
Films directed	42nd Street (musical numbers, 1933) She Had To Say Yes (1933) Footlight Parade (musical numbers, 1933) Dames (musical numbers, 1934) Fashions of 1934 (musical numbers, 1934) Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) Bright Lights (1935) I Live for Love (1935) In Caliente (musical numbers, 1935) Stars Over Broadway (musical numbers, 1935) Stage Struck (1936) Varsity Show (finale, 1937) The Singing Marine (musical numbers, 1937) Gold Diggers of 1937 (musical numbers, 1937) The Go Getter (1937) Hollywood Hotel (1937) Men Are Such Fools (1938) Gold Diggers in Paris (musical numbers, 1938) Garden of the Moon (1938) Comet Over Broadway (1938) Broadway Serenade (finale, 1939) They Made Me a Criminal (1939) Fast and Furious (1939) Babes in Arms (1939) The Wizard of Oz (scenes cut, 1939) Forty Little Mothers (1940) Strike Up The Band (1940) Blonde Inspiration (1941) Lady Be Good (musical numbers, 1941) Ziegfeld Girl (musical numbers, 1941) Babes on Broadway (1941) For Me and My Gal (1942) Born to Sing (finale, 1942) Cabin in the Sky ("Shine" sequence, 1943) The Gang's All Here (1943) Girl Crazy ("I Got Rhythm" sequence, 1943) Cinderella Jones (1946) Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949) Annie Get Your Gun (scenes cut, 1950)
Films choreographed only	Whoopee! (1930) Kiki (1931) Palmy Days (1931) Flying High (1931) Sky Devils (1932) Girl Crazy (1932) Night World (1932) Bird of Paradise (1932) The Kid From Spain (1932) Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) Roman Scandals (1933) Wonder Bar (1934) Romance on the High Seas (1948) Call Me Mister (1951) Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) Small Town Girl (1953) Rose Marie (1954) Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)