Pin Up Girl

Pin Up Girl


20th Century-Fox, 1944, Color, 83 minutes, ***

Released April, 1944



Hilarious situations spring up all over in this musical comedy about a girl who simply can't stop telling lies.



Famed World War II pin-up girl Betty Grable stars as Lorry, the most popular girl at the USO in a small midwestern town. En route to a new job in Washington, D.C., Lorry, a secretary, takes a detour to New York, where she and a friend crash a ritzy nightclub, and Lorry pretends to be a Broadway star. This provides a backdrop for lavish production numbers, with Grable in gorgeous gowns showing her glorious gams. Comic actors Marth Raye and Joe E. Brown fill out the cast, joined by the swing orchestra of Charlie Spivak and the Stardusters singing group.

Produced by: William LeBaron

Directed by: Bruce Humberstone

Screen Play by: Robert Ellis and Helen Logan and Earl Baldwin

Based on a Story by Libbie Block

Lyrics and Music by: Mack Gordon and James Monaco

Musical Direction: Emil Newman, Charles Henderson

Dances Staged by: Hermes Pan

Military Number Staged by: Alice Sullivan

Roller Skating Number by: Gae Foster

Musical Numbers Supervised by: Fanchon

Art Direction: James Basevi, Joseph C. Wright

Set Decorations: Thomas Little

Associate: Paul S. Fox

Costumes: Rene Hubert

Makeup Artist: Guy Pearce

Sound: Eugene Grossman, Roger Heman

Director of Photography: Ernest Palmer

Special Photographic Effects by: Fred Sersen

Photographed in Technicolor

Technicolor Director: Natalie Kalmus

Associate: Richard Mueller

Film Editor: Robert Simpson



Cast: Betty Grable [Lorry Jones], John Harvey [Tommy Dooley], Martha Raye [Molly McKay], Joe E. Brown [Eddie Hall], Eugene Pallette [Barney Briggs], Skating Vanities [Roller Skating Troupe], Dorothea Kent [Kay], Dave Willock [Dud Miller], Condos Brothers [Dance Specialty], Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra [Themselves], Additional Cast: Robert E. Homans [Stage Doorman], Marcel Dalio [Headwaiter], Roger Clark [George], Leon Belasco [Captain of Waiters], Irving Bacon [Window Cleaner], Walter Tetley [Messenger Boy], Ruth Warren [Scrubwoman], Max Willenz [Waiter], Mantan Moreland, Charles Moore [Redcaps], Gloria Nord [Roller Skating Headliner], J. Farrell MacDonald [Trainman], Lillian Porter [Cigarette Girl], Bess Flowers [Club Patron], Hermes Pan [Dance Specialty Number], Angela Blue [Dance Specialty Number], The Stardusters (with June Hutton) [Themselves]



Musical Program: [0:00] You're My Little Pin Up Girl (sung by Chorus behind titles); [0:02] You're My Little Pin Up Girl (sung by Betty Grable and Chorus dubbing for Soldiers and Hostesses at U.S.O.; danced by the Condos Brothers); [0:13] Time Alone Will Tell (sung by the Stardusters with June Hutton, backed by Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra); [0:20] Red Robins, Bob Whites and Blue Birds (sung by Martha Raye with Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra; sung by Chorus and rollerskated by the Skating Vanities); [0:29] Don't Carry Tales out of School (sung and danced by Betty Grable and male quartet [four guys from the band, I think] with Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra); [0:48] Yankee Doodle Hayride (sung by Martha Raye with Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra then danced by the Condos Brothers); [0:57] Once Too Often (extended instrumental intro by Charlie Spival and His Orchestra, sung by Betty Grable, danced by Betty Grable and Hermes Pan accompanied by Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra); [1:11] Don't Carry Tales out of School (sung by Betty Grable and several members of the band with Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra); [1:14] The Story of the Very Merry Widow (sung by Betty Grable and Chorus, sung and danced by Chorus); [1:18] WAVE precision drill team number led by Betty Grable in uniform