The Gang's All Here (1943 film)

Infobox_Film


name = The Gang's All Here
director = Busby Berkeley
producer = William Goetz William LeBaron
writer = Walter Bullock Nancy Wintner George Root Jr. Tom Bridges
starring = Alice Faye Carmen Miranda
music = Leo Robin Harry Warren
cinematography = Edward Cronjager
editing = Ray Curtiss
distributor = Twentieth Century Fox
released = flagicon|USA 24 December, 1943
runtime = 103 min.
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0035916
amg_id = 1:92663|

"The Gang's All Here" (1943) is an American Twentieth Century Fox Technicolor musical feature film starring Alice Faye, James Ellison, and Carmen Miranda in a story about a soldier and a nightclub singer. The film was directed by Busby Berkeley. Musical highlights include Carmen Miranda's "The Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat" and an insinuating, witty version of "You Discover You're in New York" that lampoons contemporary fads, fashions, and wartime shortages. Alice Faye sings "A Journey to a Star", "No Love, No Nothing", and the surreal finale "The Polka-Dot Polka".

Plot and cast

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. Unbeknownest 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 De Marco) 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.

DVD Release

Fox released the long-awaited and digitally remastered DVD format in February 2007. A laserdisc version was released in 1997 by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment but was quickly pulled and is now a highly valued collector's item. Privately made copies in all formats are circulated among collectors. The film is occasionally shown on American television.