DIAMOND HORSESHOE/ΑΚΑΠΟΥΛΚΟ

Diamond Horseshoe
(aka Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe)
20th Century-Fox, 1945, Color, 104 minutes
Released May, 1945

Dick Haymes, a medical student, falls for Betty Grable, the star performer at Haymes' father's (William Gaxton) nightclub. He decides to drop out of med school and take up a career as a hoofer - just to be near Grable, much to his father's chagrin. Father blames Grable for the trouble, but she convinces Haymes to return to med school, and everyone is happy again.

Producer: William Perlberg
Director: George Seaton
Screenplay: George Seaton (based on a play by John Kenyon Nicholson)
Music Director: Charles Henderson and Alfred Newman
Song Score: Mack Gordon and Harry Warren
Choreography: Hermes Pan
Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Joseph C. Wright
Set Decoration: Ernest Lansing, Thomas Little
Costume Design: Sascha Brastoff, Bonnie Cashin, René Hubert, Kay Nelson
Special Effects: Fred Sersen
Cinematography: Ernest Palmer
Film Editing: Robert Simpson

Cast: Betty Grable [Bonnie Collins], Dick Haymes [Joe Davis, Jr.], Phil Silvers [Blinky Walker], William Gaxton [Joe Davis, Sr.], Beatrice Kay [Claire Williams], Margaret Dumont [Mrs. Standish], Roy Benson [Harper], George Melford [Pop], Hal K. Dawson [Carter], Bess Flowers [Duchess], Kenny Williams [Dance Director], Reed Hadley [Interne], Eddie Acuff [Clarinet Player], Edward Gargan [Grogan], Ruth Rickaby [Wardrobe Woman], Carmen Cavallaro and His Orchestra [Themselves], Willie Solar [Specialty]

Musical Program: Welcome to the Diamond Horseshoe (Betty Grable and Chorus); Cooking Up a Show (William Gaxton and Chorus); In Acapulco (sung and danced by Betty Grable and Chorus); I Wish I Knew (sung by Dick Haymes, reprised by Betty Grable); The More I See You (Dick Haymes); Carrie (Carrie Marry Harry) (Beatrice Kay and William Gaxton); Play Me an Old Fashioned Melody (Beatrice Kay and William Gaxton); A Nickel,s Worth of Jive (sung and danced by Betty Grable); Let Me Call You Sweetheart (Beatrice Kay); You'll Never Know (Betty Grable); Shoo Shoo Baby (Betty Grable); (The) Aba-Daba Honeymoon (sung by Willie Solar); (I'd Climb the Highest Mountain) If I Knew I'd Find You (sung by unidentified male singer); Dessert Finale (Phil Silvers, Betty Grable and William Gaxton)