THE KID FROM BROOKLYN

The Kid from Brooklyn
Goldwyn / RKO, 1946, Color, 113 minutes
Released March, 1946

Danny Kaye scores a comedic knockout in this tale of a mild-mannered milkman who accidentally KOs a middleweight boxing champ and is turned by the champ's scheming manager into a fighter himself. Virginia Mayo, Lionel Stander, Vera-Ellen co-star in this remake of Harold Lloyd's "The Milky Way."

Produced by: Samuel Goldwyn
Directed by: Norman Z. McLeod
Adapted by: Don Hartman and Melville Shavelson
From a Screenplay by Grover Jones, Frank Butler and Richard Connell
Based on a play by Lynn Root and Harry Clork ("The Milky Way")
"Pavlova" words and music by Sylvia Fine and Max Liebman
"You're the Cause of It All," "I Love an Old Fashioned Song," "Hey! What's Your Name?" "Josie," "The Sunflower Song" music and lyrics by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn
Technical Adviser: John Indrisano
Musical Director: Carmen Dragon
Musical Supervisor: Louis Forbes
Vocal Arrangements: Kay Thompson
Dances: Bernard Pearce
Art Direction: Perry Ferguson, Stewart Chaney
Associate: McClure Capps
Set Decorations: Howard Bristol, Clifford Porter
Costume Designer: Miles White
Clothes Designer: Jean Louis
Make-Up: Robert Stephanoff
Hair Stylist: Marie Clark
Sound Recorder: Fred Lau
Director of Photography: Gregg Toland
Filmed in Technicolor
Technicolor Color Director: Natalie Kalmus
Associate: Mitchell Kovaleski
Film Editor: Daniel Mandell

Cast: Danny Kaye [Burleigh Sullivan], Virginia Mayo [Polly Pringle], Vera-Ellen [Susie Sullivan], Steve Cochran [Speed MacFarlane], Eve Arden [Ann Westley], Walter Abel [Gabby Sloan], Lionel Stander [Spider Schultz], Fay Bainter [Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne], Clarence Kolb [Mr. Austin], Victor Cutler [Photographer], Charles Cane [Willard], Jerome Cowan [Fight Announcer], Don Wilson, Knox Manning [Radio Announcers], Kay Thompson [Matron], Johnny Downs [Master of Ceremonies], And The Goldwyn Girls Additional Cast: Pierre Watkin [Mr. LeMoyne], Frank Riggi [Killer Kelly], Frank Moran [Fight Manager], John Indrisano [Boxing Instructor], Almeda Fowler [Bystander], Snub Pollard [Man Who Reacts to Lion], Robert Wade Chatterton [Man Who Lifts Up Susie], Torben Meyer, William Forrest, Jack Norton [Guests], Billy Nelson, Ralph Dunn [Seconds], Billy Wayne, George Chandler [Reporters], Betty Blythe, James Carlisle [Mrs. LeMoyne's Friends], Robert Strong, Tom Quinn, William "Billy" Newell [Photographers], Bess Flowers [Spectator at first fight], Karen X. Gaylord, Ruth Valmy, Shirley Ballard, Virginia Belmont, Betty Cargyle, Jean Cronin, Vonne Lester, Diana Mumby, Mary Simpson, Virginia Thorpe, Tyra Vaughn, Kismi Stefan, Betty Alexander, Martha Montgomery, Joyce MacKenzie, Helen Kimball, Jan Bryant, Donna Hamilton [The Goldwyn Girls], Dorothy Ellers [singing voice of Virginia Mayo], Betty Russell [singing voice of Vera-Ellen]

Musical Program: [0:00] Overture (played by Orchestra behind titles); [0:01] The Sunflower Song (singing skit by The Goldwyn Girls); [0:14] Hey! What's Your Name? (sung and danced by Vera-Ellen and Men's Chorus, Betty Russell dubbing for Vera-Ellen); [1:04] You're the Cause of It All (sung by Dorothy Ellers dubbing for Virginia Mayo); [1:10] Welcome Burleigh (sung and marched by Goldwyn Girls and Mixed Chorus); [1:15] I Love an Old Fashioned Song (sung by Dorothy Ellers dubbing for Virginia Mayo with Cop and Organ Grinder); [1:18] Josie (sung and danced by Goldwyn Girls, Men's Chorus and Vera-Ellen; Betty Russell dubbing for Vera-Ellen); [1:23] Pavlova (comedy number by Danny Kaye, partly sung and danced by Danny Kaye and Ensemble)