The Gang's All Here (1943) DVD9 - Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, B

The Gang's All Here (1943) DVD9 - Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Benny Goodman Musical [DDR]

The Gang's All Here is a 1943 American Twentieth Century Fox Technicolor musical film starring Alice Faye, James Ellison, and Carmen Miranda in a story about a soldier and a nightclub singer. The film, directed and choreographed by Busby Berkeley, is considered a camp classic. It is noted for its use of musical numbers with fruit hats.

Musical highlights include Carmen Miranda performing an insinuating, witty version of "You Discover You're in New York" that lampoons fads, fashions, and wartime shortages of the time. The film is also memorable for Miranda's "The Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat", which because of its sexual innuendo (dozens of scantily clad women handling very large bananas), prevented the film from being shown in Miranda's native Portugal in its initial release. Even in the US the censors dictated that the chorus girls must hold the bananas at the waist and not at the hip. Alice Faye sings "A Journey to a Star," "No Love, No Nothin'," and the surreal finale "The Polka-Dot Polka."

The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color (James Basevi, Joseph C. Wright, Thomas Little). It was the last musical Faye made as a Hollywood superstar. She was pregnant with her second daughter during filming.

CAST:-
Alice Faye as Eadie Allen
Carmen Miranda as Dorita
Phil Baker as Phil Baker
Benny Goodman as Himself
Benny Goodman Orchestra as Themselves
Eugene Pallette as Andrew Mason Sr.
Charlotte Greenwood as Mrs. Peyton Potter
Edward Everett Horton as Peyton Potter
Tony DeMarco as Himself
James Ellison as Andy Mason
Sheila Ryan as Vivian Potter
Dave Willock as Sgt. Pat Casey
Bando da Lua ... Themselves, Carmen Miranda's Orchestra

Directed by Busby Berkeley
Produced by William Goetz, William LeBaron
Written by Walter Bullock
Music by Leo Robin, Harry Warren
Running time 103 minutes

SONGS NUMBERS:-
Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here, Music by Theodore Morse and Arthur Sullivan, Lyrics by Dolly Morse (as D.A. Esrom)
Brazil (Aquarela do Brasil), Music by Ary Barroso, lyrics by S.K. Russell, Sung by Aloysio De Oliveira, Carmen Miranda and chorus
You Discover You're in New York, Music by Harry Warren, Lyrics by Leo Robin, Perrformed by Carmen Miranda, Alice Faye, Phil Baker and chorus
Minnie's in the Money, Music by Harry Warren, Lyrics by Leo Robin, Sung by Benny Goodman with his band and a jitterbug chorus
Soft Winds, Played by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, Danced by Alice Faye and James Ellison
The Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat, Music by Harry Warren, Lyrics by Leo Robin, Performed by Carmen Miranda and chorus
A Journey to a Star, Music by Harry Warren, Lyrics by Leo Robin, Sung by Alice Faye, Danced by Tony De Marco and Sheila Ryan
The Jitters, Music by Gene Rose, Played by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, Danced by Charlotte Greenwood and Charles Saggau
No Love, No Nothin, Music by Harry Warren, Lyrics by Leo Robin, Sung by Alice Faye, Danced by Tony De Marco and Sheila Ryan
(I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo, Music by Harry Warren, Lyrics by Mack Gordon, Played by Benny Goodman and his band
Paducah, Music by Harry Warren, Lyrics by Leo Robin, Played & Sung by Benny Goodman & Carmen Miranda
The Polka Dot Polka, Music by Harry Warren, Lyrics by Leo Robin, Sung by Alice Faye with dancers
The Polka Dot Ballet, Music by Harry Warren, Performed by Busby Berkeley dancers
A Hot Time in the Old Town, Music by Theo. A. Metz
Silent Señorita, Music by Harry Warren, Lyrics by Leo Robin
Valse des rayons' from 'Le Papillon aka "Valse chaloupée", Music by Jacques Offenbach
P'ra Que Discutir, Written by Nestor Amaral
Diga o Ella, Written by Nestor Amaral
Let's Dance, Written by Gregory Stone, Josef Bonime and Fanny Baldridge[6]

MOVIE PLOT:- The Gang's All Here 1943
The film follows the typical "boy-meets-girl" formula of musical comedy. A young soldier, Sgt. Andy Mason (James Ellison) meets Eadie Allen (Alice Faye), a New York City nightclub singer. The two fall in love. Unbeknownst to Eadie, Andy is unofficially engaged to long-time friend Vivian Potter (Sheila Ryan). Andy goes to war and returns a hero. His father (Eugene Pallette) arranges to have Eadie and her fellow nightclub performers (Carmen Miranda, Benny Goodman, Phil Baker, and dancer Tony DeMarco) appear in a war-bond drive at the estate of Vivian's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peyton Potter (Charlotte Greenwood and Edward Everett Horton). It is during rehearsals that Eadie learns the truth about Andy's relationship with Vivian. The clouds vanish and the lovers unite when Vivian decides she wants a career as a dancer rather than marriage. The film ends with everyone living happily ever after.

Noted drummer Louie Bellson appears uncredited in the Benny Goodman Orchestra while Carmen Miranda sings "Paducah

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:-
Video Codec: MPEG-2
Video Bitrate: 4999 kbps
Video Resolution: 720x480
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1
Frames Per Second: 23.976
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: English
RunTime 103 mins
Subtitles: Francais, Espanol
Ripped by: Trinidad [DDR]
Duration: 103 mins