Wednesday, January 19, 2011

ANYTHING GOES

Anything Goes
Paramount, 1956, Color, 106 minutes, ***
Released April 1956

Bill Benson (Bing Crosby) and Ted Adams (Donald O'Connor) are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each 'discovers' the perfect leading lady for the plum female role. Each promises the prize role to the girl they selected without informing the other until they head back across the Atlantic by liner - with each man having brought his choice along! It becomes a stormy crossing as each man has to tell his 'find' that she might not get the role after all.

Produced by: Robert Emmett Dolan
Directed by: Robert Lewis
Assistant Director: John Coonan
Screen Story and Screen Play by: Sidney Sheldon
From the Play by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse
(Revised by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse)
Music and Lyrics by: Cole Porter
New Songs by: Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen
Musical Numbers Arranged and Conducted by: Joseph J. Lilley
Special Orchestral Arrangements by: Van Cleave
Musical Numbers Staged by: Nick Castle
Jeanmarie Ballet and "I Get a Kick Out of You" Staged by Roland Petit
"Anything Goes" dance number staged by Ernie Flatt
Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Joseph MacMillan Johnson
Set Decoration: Sam Comer and Grace Gregory
Costumes: Edith Head
Ballet Costumes: Tom Keogh
Makeup Supervision: Wally Westmore
Sound Recording by: Gene Merritt, Gene Garvin
Director of Photography: John F. Warren
Special Photographic Effects: John P. Fulton
Process Photography: Farciot Edouart
Filmed in VistaVision, Color by Technicolor
Technicolor Color Consultant: Richard Mueller
Edited by: Frank Bracht

Cast: Bing Crosby [Bill Benson], Donald O'Connor [Ted Adams], Zizi Jeanmaire [Gaby Duval], Mitzi Gaynor [Patsy Blair], Phil Harris [Steve Blair], Kurt Kasznar [Victor Lawrence], Richard Erdman [Ed Brent], Walter Sande [Alex Todd], Archer MacDonald [Otto], Argentina Brunetti [Suzanne], Alma Macrorie [French Baroness], Dorothy Neumann [German Woman], James Griffith [Paul Holiday], Don Megowan [Henri], Marcel Dalio [Ship's Captain], Bess Flowers [Dance Extra on Ship], Jean Del Val [French Luggage Man], Stuart Holmes [Parisian Nightclub Table Extra], Paul Wexler, Nancy Kulp [Autograph Seekers], Virginia McDowall [English Usherette], Torben Meyer [French Waiter], Buzz Miller [Specialty Dancer], Ruta Lee [Girl]

Musical Program: [0:00] Overture (played by Orchestra behind titles); [0:04] Ya Gotta Give the People Hoke (sung and danced by Bing Crosby and Donald O'Connor); [0:14] Anything Goes (sung by Mitzi Gaynor, danced by Mitzi Gaynor and Chorus); [0:24] I Get a Kick Out of You (sung and danced by Zizi Jeanmaire and Chorus); [0:36] You're the Top (sung and danced by Bing Crosby with Mitzi Gaynor and Donald O'Connor with Zizi Jeanmaire); [0:49] It's D'Lovely (sung and danced by Donald O'Connor and Mitzi Gaynor); [1:05] All Through the Night (sung by Bing Crosby); [1:08] "Dream Ballet" (danced by Zizi Jeanmaire and Ensemble); [1:22] You Can Bounce Right Back (sung and danced by Donald O'Connor with Children); [1:32] A Second Hand Turban and a Crystal Ball (sung by Bing Crosby with comedy routine by Bing Crosby and Donald O'Connor); [1:41] Blow, Gabriel, Blow (sung and danced by Bing Crosby, Mitzi Gaynor, Donald O'Connor, Zizi Jeanmaire and Chorus)

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