Variety Girl

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Variety Girl
Jack Norton
William Demarest
CinematographyLionel Lindon
Stuart Thompson
Edited byLeRoy Stone
Music byJoseph J. Lilley
Troy Sanders
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • August 24, 1947 (1947-08-24)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$3.6 million (US rentals)[1]

Variety Girl is a 1947 American

Jack Norton, and William Demarest. It was produced by Paramount Pictures. Numerous Paramount contract players and directors make cameos or perform songs, with particularly large amounts of screen time featuring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. Among many others, the studio contract players include Gary Cooper, Alan Ladd, Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, William Holden, Burt Lancaster, Robert Preston, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Barbara Stanwyck and Paula Raymond
.

Overview

The opening caption reads, "This picture is dedicated to Variety Clubs, International, "The Heart of Show Business", which beats constantly in behalf of the under-privileged children of the world ... regardless of race, creed or color".[2] The story revolves around two young girls who exchange identities, causing confusion at the Variety Club (show-business charity) and the Paramount studio.

The elaborate closing song, "Harmony," begins with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope singing and dancing on stage in matching checkered suits and straw hats, eventually moves to a merry-go-round with Gary Cooper in cowboy regalia seated on a plastic horse while talking through a couple of stanzas with Barry Fitzgerald, then gradually incorporates the entire cast, which includes almost everyone under contract to Paramount at the time, in a rousing finale launched by William Holden and Ray Milland chasing a scantily-clad woman across a soundstage.

The film includes a five-minute color

Puppetoon segment Romeow and Julicat by George Pal in Technicolor which is in black and white in most prints.[citation needed
]

Cast

Celebrity appearances

Reception

Chicago Daily Tribune wrote, "It would be difficult to select any one of this amiable aggregation for special honors."[6]

Soundtrack

  • "Tallahassee" (Frank Loesser): sung by Alan Ladd, Dorothy Lamour and others
  • "Harmony" (Jimmy Van Heusen / Johnny Burke): sung by Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and others
  • "Tired" (Allan Roberts / Doris Fisher): sung by Pearl Bailey
  • "He Can Waltz" (Frank Loesser): sung by Mary Hatcher
  • "Your Heart Calling Mine" (Frank Loesser): sung by Mary Hatcher and Spike Jones and his City Slickers
  • "Romeow and Julicat" (Edward H. Plumb): performed by Mary Hatcher, Pinto Colvig, and chorus
  • "I Must Have Been Madly in Love" (Frank Loesser)
  • "I Want My Money Back" (Frank Loesser)
  • "Impossible Things" (Frank Loesser)
  • "The French" (Frank Loesser)[7]

The song "Tallahassee" appeared in the Billboard charts with recordings by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters (#10 position) and by Dinah Shore and Woody Herman (#15 spot).[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Top Grossers of 1947", Variety, 7 January 1948 p 63
  2. ^ Reynolds, Fred (1988). Road to Hollywood (supplement). John Joyce. p. 13.
  3. ^ Vagg, Stephen (February 11, 2020). "The Cinema of Veronica Lake". Diabolique Magazine.
  4. ^ "Variety". July 16, 1947. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ^ "'Variety Girl' Follows the Style of 'Big Broadcast' Films, Permitting Paramount Studio to Parade Most of Its Stars". The New York Times. October 16, 1947. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
  6. ^ Tinée, Mae (October 13, 1947). "'Variety Girl' a Bargain in Big Names and Fun". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 33. Retrieved May 7, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Reynolds, Fred (1986). Road to Hollywood. John Joyce. p. 173.
  8. ISBN 0-89820-083-0
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