THE DOLLY SISTERS

The Dolly Sisters
20th Century-Fox, 1945, Color, 114 minutes
Released November, 1945

Haver and Grable are a vaudeville sister act with the usual entanglements of romance, but this time it's an auto accident which threatens to break up the act. June and Betty are fun together and put on some better-than-average song and dance numbers. Loosely based on the life story of the famed Dolly Sisters of vaudeville.

The story begins in New York, 1904.

Produced by: George Jessel
Directed by: Irving Cummings
Original Screen Play by: John Larkin and Marian Spitzer
New Songs: Lyrics by Mack Gordon, Music by James Monaco
"I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" (by) Harry Carroll and Joseph McCarthy
Musical Direction: Alfred Newman, Charles Henderson
Orchestral Arrangements: Gene Rose
Dances Staged by: Seymour Felix
Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller
Set Decorations: Thomas Little
Associate: Walter M. Scott
Musical Settings Designed by: Joseph C. Wright
Costumes: Orry Kelly
Makeup Artist: Ben Nye
Sound: Arthur L. Kirbach, Roger Heman
Director of Photography: Ernest Palmer
Special Photographic Effects: Fred Sersen
Photographed in Technicolor
Technicolor Director: Natalie Kalmus
Associate: Richard Mueller
Film Editor: Barbara McLean

Awards: Nominated for Best Song Academy Award ("I Can't Begin to Tell You")

Cast: Betty Grable [Jenny], John Payne [Harry Fox], June Haver [Rosie], S. Z. Sakall [Uncle Latsie], Reginald Gardiner [Duke], Frank Latimore [Irving Netcher], Gene Sheldon [Professor Winnup], Sig Rumann [Tsimmis], Trudy Marshall [Leonore], Collette Lyons [Flo Daly], Evan Thomas [Jenny as a Child], Donna Jo Gribble [Rosie as a Child], Robert Middlemass [Oscar Hammerstein], Paul Hurst [Dowling], Lester Allen [Morrie Keno], Frank Orth [Stage Manager], William Nye [Bartender], Herbert Ashley [Fields], Trudy Berliner [German Actress], Eugene Borden [Chauffeur], Claire Richards [Operator], Andre Charlot [Phillipe], Mae Marsh [Flower Lady], Virginia Brissac [Nun], Frank Ferguson [Reporter], Crauford Kent [Man], J. Farrell MacDonald [Doorman], Albert Petit [Croupier], Walter Soderling [Conductor on Train]

Musical Program: [0:00] Overture: "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" (played by Orchestra behind titles); [0:01} The Sidewalks of New York (East Side, West Side) (played in background); [0:02] Hungarian Dance No. 5 (instrumental played by small orchestra at The Little Hungary Cafe, then danced by the young Dolly Sisters [Evan Thomas and Donna Jo Gribbel] at The Little Hungary Cafe, then danced by the adult Dolly Sisters still at the Little Hungary Cafe in 1912); [0:12] The Vamp (sung and danced by Betty Grable and June Haver at Bijou); [0:15] I Can't Begin to Tell You (sung by John Payne); [0:18] Seal Act (Gene Sheldon and unidentified seal); [0:20] Give Me the Moonlight, Give Me the Girl (sung and danced by Betty Grable and John Payne with one verse played on Victrola); [0:30] We Have Been Around / Carolina in the Morning (sung and danced by June Haver and Betty Grable); [0:34] Don't Be Too Old Fashioned (Old Fashioned Girl) / Powder, Lipstick and Rouge (sung and danced by June Haver, Betty Grable and Chorus Girls at Ziegfeld Midnight Frolics, 1915); [0:48] I'm Always Chasing Rainbows (sung by John Payne and Betty Grable); [0:58] Darktown Strutters Ball (sung in French and danced by June Haver, Betty Grable and Chorus Girls at the Folies Bergère); [1:03] Smiles (instrumental played at dance in London, danced by June Haver and guests); [1:07] I Can't Begin to Tell You (sung by Betty Grable while dancing with Reginald Gardiner); [1:08] Arrah Go On, I'm Gonna Go Back to Oregon (sung by Mens Chorus); [1:09] Smiles (sung by Mens Chorus); [1:17] Mademoiselle from Armentieres (Hinky-Dinky Parlex-vous) / Oh Frenchy (sung by Mens Chorus at train station); [1:20] Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile (sung by Mens Chorus at train station); [1:22] I'm Always Chasing Rainbows / Arrah Go On, I'm Gonna Go Back to Oregon / I Can't Begin to Tell You (sung by John Payne); [1:29] On the Mississippi (?) (excerpt played by Jazz Band at party); [1:45] We Have Been Around / The Sidewalks of New York (East Side, West Side) (sung and danced by June Haver and Betty Grable at Actors Guild Benefit); [1:50] I'm Always Chasing Rainbows (sung by John Payne at Actors Guild Benefit); [1:56] I Can't Begin to Tell You (sung by John Payne, Betty Grable and June Haver at Actors Guild Benefit); There are many other short fragments of songs