HERE COME THE GIRLS

Here Come the Girls
Hope Enterprises / Paramount, 1953, Color, 78 minutes, ***
(video tape and sleeve incorrectly labeled as "100 minutes")
Released October, 1953

A mysterious killer known as "Jack the Slasher" is stalking the members of a musical revue, and his next victim could wind up being "boy" singer Bob Hope in this lively comedy laced with songs. Tony Martin, Arlene Dahl, Rosemary Clooney, William Demarest co-star.

"In the year 1900, there lived a chorus boy named Stanley Snodgrass, who worked his way up from the gutter... only to discover that he had a round trip ticket."

Produced by: Paul Jones
Directed by: Claude Binyon
Assistant Director: Edward Salven
Screenplay by: Edmund Hartmann and Hal Kanter
Story by: Edmund Hartmann
Music Direction: Lyn Murray
Special Orchestral Arrangements: Van Cleave
Songs by: Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
Dances Created and Staged by: Nick Castle
Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson
Set Decoration: Sam Comer and Grace Gregory
Costumes: Edith Head
Makeup Supervision: Wally Westmore
Sound Recording by: Hugo Grenzbach and John Cope
Director of Photography: Lionel Lindon
Special Photographic Effects: Gordon Jennings and Paul Lerpae
Color by Technicolor
Technicolor Color Consultant: Richard Mueller
Edited by: Arthur Schmidt

Cast: Bob Hope [Stanley Snodgrass], Tony Martin [Allen Trent], Arlene Dahl [Irene Bailey], Rosemary Clooney [Daisy Crockett], Millard Mitchell [Albert Snodgrass], William Demarest [Dennis Logan], Fred Clark [Harry Fraser], Robert Strauss [Jack the Slasher], Zamah Cunningham [Mrs. Snodgrass], Frank Orth [Mr. Hungerford], The Four Stepbrothers [Dance Specialty], Additional Cast: Johnny Downs [Bob], Virginia Leith, Sheree North, Phyllis Coates [Chorus Girls], Dale Van Sickel [Policeman], Lois Hall [Belle], Nancy Kulp [Washwoman], Inesita [Spanish Dancer]

Musical Program: [0:00] Overture (played by Orchestra behind titles); [0:01] Girls (production number sung and danced by Cast and Chorus with Bob Hope as a Chorus Boy); [0:10] Ya Got Class (sung and danced by Rosemary Clooney and Bob Hope); [0:22] It's Torment (danced by Inesita, sung and danced by Bob Hope, Arlene Dahl and Girls Chorus); [0:31] When You Love Someone (sung by Rosemary Clooney); [0:54] Ali Baba (Be My Baby) (sung by Rosemary Clooney, danced by Clooney and Chorus Girls); [0:59] Ali Baba (Be My Baby) (instrumental arrangement danced by Bob Hope and The Four Step Brothers); [1:01] Heavenly Days (sung by Tony Martin); [1:09] See the Circus (sung by Arlene Dahl and Chorus Girls); [1:17] Never So Beautiful (short excerpt sung by Tony Martin)