Easy to Wed
MGM, 1946, Color, 111 minutes
Released July, 1946
The screwball favorite "Libeled Lady" received a musical revamping from MGM, with Esther Williams playing the socialite who sues newspaperman Van Johnson after a less-than-flattering article is run about her. Lucille Ball and Keenan Wynn also star; songs include "Come Closer to Me," "Continental Polka" and "It Shouldn't Happen to a Duck."
Produced by: Jack Cummings
Directed by: Edward Buzzell
Adapted by: Dorothy Kingsley
From the Screen Play "Libeled Lady" by Maurine Watkins, Howard Emmett Rogers and George Oppenheimer
Musical Score, Supervision and Direction: Johnny Green
Musical Numbers Staged and Directed by: Jack Donohue
Orchestration: Ted Duncan
Musical Program: "Viva Mexico" (by) Pedro Galindo; "Acercate Mas" (by) Osvaldo Farres; "The Continental Polka" (by) Ralph Blane, Johnny Green; "Toca Tu Samba" (by) Raul Soler; "Boneca de Pixe" (by) Ary Barroso
Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters
Set Decorations: Edwin B. Willis
Associate: Jack Bonar
Costume Supervision: Irene
Associate: Marion Herwood Keyes
Men's Costumes: Valles
Make-Up Created by: Jack Dawn
Recording Director: Douglas Shearer
Director of Photography: Harry Stradling
Filmed in Technicolor
Technicolor Color Director: Natalie Kalmus
Associate: Henri Jaffa
Film Editor: Blanche Sewell
Cast: Van Johnson [Bill Stevens Chandler], Esther Williams [Connie Allenbury], Lucille Ball [Gladys Benton], Keenan Wynn [Warren Haggerty], Cecil Kellaway [J. B. Allenbury], Carlos Ramirez [Himself], Ben Blue [Spike Dolan], Ethel Smith [Herself], June Lockhart [Babs Norvell], Grant Mitchell [Homer Henshaw], Josephine Whittell [Mrs. Burns Norvell], Paul Harvey [Farwood], Jonathan Hale [Hector Boswell], James Flavin [Joe], Celia Travers [Farwood's Secretary], Sybil Merritt [Receptionist], Sondra Rodgers [Attendant], Additional Cast: Jean Porter [Frances], Robert Emmett O'Connor [Taxi Driver], Katharine Booth (aka Karin Booth) [Clerk], Dick Winslow [Orchestra Leader], George Calliga [Headwaiter], Tom Dugan [Waiter], Katherine Black [Masseuse], Walter Soderling [Mr. Dibson], Sarah Edwards [Mrs.Dibson], Charles Knight, Guy Bates Post, John Valentine [Butlers], Louise Burnette, Patricia Denise, Phyllis Graffeo, Kanza Omar, Mildred Sellers, Mitzie Uehlein [Girls at Pool], Chavo De Leon, Nina Bara [Rumba Dancers], Milton Kibbee [Private Detective], Jack Shea [Lifeguard], Charles Sullivan, Frank Hagney [Truck Drivers], Joel Friedkin [Justice of the Peace], Fred Fisher, Alex Pollard [Waiters], Virginia Rees [singing voice of Lucille Ball]
Musical Program: [0:00] Overture (played by Orchestra behind titles); [0:14] The Continental Polka (sung and danced by Lucille Ball and Ensemble, Virginia Rees dubbing for Lucille Ball); [0:30] Acercate Mas (sung by Carlos Ramirez, danced by Esther Williams with Van Johnson and other nightclub patrons); [1:03] Acercate Mas (reprised by Esther Williams while dancing with Van Johnson); [1:28] Toca Tu Samba (played by Ethel Smith on organ with small band); [1:30] Boneca de Pixe (production number played by Ethel Smith on organ, sung and danced by Esther Williams, Van Johnson and Chorus); [1:35] Viva Mexico (sung and played in fragments by wandering trio through remainder of film, short excerpt sung by Chorus at end)
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