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My Gal Sal (1942) 04/30/1942 (US) Comedy , Music , Romance 1h 43m. User. Score. What's your Vibe ? Overview. Biopic chronicling the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer and moves up into New York society, writing one hit song after another.
My Gal Sal takes Dresser from his Indiana home to New York, where he becomes the toast of Tin Pan Alley and enters into a tumultuous love-hate relationship with the fictional Sally Elliott (Hayworth), supposedly a leading musical star of the day.
My Gal Sal is a 1942 American musical film distributed by 20th Century Fox and starring Rita Hayworth and Victor Mature. The film is a biopic of 1890s German-American composer / songwriter Paul Dresser and singer Sally Elliot.
Near the end of the 19th century, Indiana teen Paul Dresser (Victor Mature) runs away from home to become a musician. He ends up with a traveling medicine show, where vaudeville star Sally...
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In 1890s Indiana, young Paul Dresser runs away from home and, after painful misadventures, joins Colonel Truckee's medicine show where he meets beautiful Mae Collins and has his first taste of songwriting. When the show is visited by derisive stage star Sally Elliott, he finds her unforgettably alluring; exit Mae.
My Gal Sal (1942) | MUBI. /10. 7 Ratings. Awards & Festivals. Academy Awards. 1943 | Winner: Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color. 1943 | Nominee: Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture. Cast & Crew. Show all ( 30) Irving Cummings Director. Rita Hayworth Cast. Victor Mature Cast. John Sutton Cast. Carole Landis Cast.
