I LOVE MELVIN

I Love Melvin
MGM, 1953, Color, 76 minutes, ***½
Released March, 1953

I Love Melvin finds Judy LeRoy (Debbie Reynolds) an aspiring Broadway star. She's just landed a part in a Broadway college musical... She meets Melvin Hoover (Donald O'Connor), photographer from "Look" Magazine, and he suggests a photo spread in the magazine might help Judy's career. He even offers to try to get her on the cover. Lots of laughs in this musical comedy. Musical highlights include Debbie's "A Lady Loves," Debbie and Donald's "Where Did You Learn to Dance?" and Noreen Corcoran's cute rendition of "Life Has Its Funny Little Ups and Downs."

Produced by: George Wells
Directed by: Don Weis
Assistant Director: Marvin Stuart
Screen Play by: George Wells
Additional Dialogue by: Ruth Brooks Flippen
Story by: Laslo Vadnay
Music Direction: Georgie Stoll
Musical Arrangements by: Skip Martin
Songs: Lyrics by Mack Gordon, Music by Josef Myrow
Dances Staged and Directed by: Robert Alton
Art Directors: Cedric Gibbons and Jack Martin Smith, Eddie Imazu
Set Decorations: Edwin B. Willis, Jacque Mapes
Costumes Designed by: Helen Rose
Hair Styles by: Sydney Guilaroff
Make-Up Created by: William Tuttle
Recording Supervisor: Douglas Shearer
Director of Photography: Harold Rosson
Special Effects: A. Arnold Gillespie
Montage Sequence by: Peter Ballbusch
Color by Technicolor
Technicolor Color Consultant: Henri Jaffa
Color Consultant: Alvord Eiseman
Film Editor: Adrienne Fazan

Cast: Donald O'Connor [Melvin Hoover], Debbie Reynolds [Judy LeRoy], Una Merkel [Mom Schneider], Richard Anderson [Harry Flack], Allyn Joslyn [Pop Schneider], Les Tremayne [Mr. Hennenman], Noreen Corcoran [Clarabelle], Jim Backus [Mergo], Barbara Ruick [Studio Guide], Robert Taylor [Guest Star]

Musical Program: [0:00] Overture (played by Orchestra behind titles); [2:00] A Lady Loves (sung and danced by Debbie Reynolds with Mens Chorus); [0:09] We Have Never Met As of Yet (sung by Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor); [0:15] Saturday Afternoon Before the Game (sung and danced by Chorus); [0:22] Where Did You Learn To Dance? (sung and danced by Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor - fantastic number!); [0:33] Life Has Its Funny Little Ups and Downs (sung by Noreen Corcoran, danced by Noreen and Donald O'Connor on roller skates - really cute!); [0:39] I Wanna Wander (instrumental excerpt danced by Chorus in movie); [0:45] I Wanna Wander (danced by Donald O'Connor); [1:01] Judy's Dream Sequence: And There You Are (danced by Debbie Reynolds with three Fred Astaires and three Gene Kellys); [1:08] Saturday Afternoon Before the Game (reprised by Orchestra behind montage)