ΙΤ'S A GREAT FEELING

It's a Great Feeling
Warner Bros., 1949, Color, 85 minutes, ***
Released August, 1949

The stars are out in this musical comedy set on the Warner Bros. lot in Hollywood. Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson (as themselves) play actors whose clashing egos result in funny feuding and hilarious double-crossing, and Doris Day is the waitress whom each man promises to make a star. Cameos include Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Edward G. Robinson and many others. Score by Jules Styne and Sammy Cahn includes "Give Me a Song With a Beautiful Melody," "At the Cafe Rendezvous," and the title tune.

This has to be Doris Day's funniest movie. It will keep you laughing out loud from one end to the other!

Produced by: Alex Gottlieb
Directed by: David Butler
Screen Play by: Jack Rose and Mel Shavelson
From a story by I. A. L. Diamond
Music by: Jule Styne
Lyrics by: Sammy Cahn
Musical Direction: Ray Heindorf
Musical Number Staged and Directed by: LeRoy Prinz
Art Director: Stanley Fleischer
Set Decorator: Lyle B. Reifsnider
Wardrobe by: Milo Anderson
Makeup Artist: Perc Westmore
Sound by: Dolph Thomas and David Forrest
Special Effects by: William McGann, H. F. Koenekamp
Director of Photography: Wilfrid M. Cline
Color by Technicolor
Technicolor Color Director: Natalie Kalmus
Assosiate: Mitchell Kovaleski
Film Editor: Irene Morra

Cast: Dennis Morgan [Himself], Doris Day [Judy Adams], Jack Carson [Himself], Bill Goodwin [Arthur Trent], Irving Bacon [Information Clerk], Claire Carleton [Grace], Harlan Warde [Publicity Man], Jacqueline de Wit [Trent's Secretary], The Mazzone-Abbott Dancers [Themselves], Wilfred Lucas [Mr. Adams], Pat Flaherty [Gate Guard], Wendy Lee [Manicurist], Lois Austin [Saleslady], Tom Dugan [Wrestling Fan in Bar], James Holden [Soda Jerk], Jean Andren [Headwaitress], Dudley Dickerson [Porter], Sandra Gould [Train Passenger in Upper Berth], Shirley Ballard [Beautiful Girl on Bike], Errol Flynn [Jeffrey Bushfinkle], Sue Casey, Nita Talbot, Eve Whitney, Carol Brewster, Joan Vohs [Models], Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Sydney Greenstreet, Ray Heindorf, Danny Kaye, Patricia Neal, Eleanor Parker, Ronald Reagan, Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, David Butler, Michael Curtiz, King Vidor, Raoul Walsh [Guest Cameos]

Musical Program: [0:00] It's a Great Feeling (sung by Doris Day and Chorus behind titles); [0:07] Give Me a Song with a Beautiful Melody (sung by Dennis Morgan); [0:39] Blame My Absent-Minded Heart (sung by Dennis Morgan and Doris Day); [0:46] That Was a Big Fat Lie (sung by Doris Day); [0:48] That Was a Big Fat Lie (sung by Jack Carson immitating Maurice Chevalier); [0:52] That Was a Big Fat Lie (sung by Doris Day lip-syncing to Jack Carson's prerecording); [0:52] That Was a Big Fat Lie (sung by Dennis Morgan lip-syncing to Doris Day's prerecording); [1:00] Fiddle Dee Dee (sung by unidentified singing group); [1:04] At the Cafe Rendezvous (sung by Doris Day as Yvonne Amour); [1:14] Judy's Dream Sequence: There's Nothin' Rougher Than Love (sung and danced by Doris Day, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson and Ensemble); [1:18] Blame My Absent-Minded Heart (sung by Doris Day); [1:24] It's a Great Feeling (reprised by Doris Day and Chorus at end of film)