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  1. Meanwhile, Minnelli visited the set for Strike Up the Band (1940), starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. Freed mentioned they needed a musical number for a scene where Rooney's character aspires to be like Paul Whiteman , a bandleader.

  2. Jul 26, 2024 · Minnelli aided the Freed unit on individual numbers in such high-profile musicals as Strike Up the Band (1940), Babes on Broadway (1941), and Panama Hattie (1942), a Norman Z. McLeod project that MGM asked Roy Del Ruth and Minnelli to reshoot extensively.

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  3. Minnelli arrived at MGM in April of 1940. Minnelli ended up helping Berkeley solve an issue with “Our Love Affair.”. Berkeley was having trouble with how to effectively show Mickey’s character’s enthusiasm for his band as he’s explaining it to Judy’s character, during the “Our Love Affair” scene.

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  4. Feb 5, 2016 · Minnelli was on the set at the request of Arthur Freed who was having trouble with a scene. “We need a big production number here,” Freed told Minnelli. “Mickey and Judy are in the house, and he’s telling her he wants to be a famous band leader like Paul Whiteman. Something big has to happen.”

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  5. The story that Morrie Ryskind and George S. Kaufman wrote for George and Ira Gershwin's musical hit Strike Up the Band (New York 14 January 1930) bears no resemblance to this film. A news item in Hollywood Reporter notes that Vincente Minnelli staged Garland's dance routines for this film.

    • Busby Berkeley, William Ryan
    • Mickey Rooney
  6. Opening title sequence for the Mickey (Rooney) and Judy (Garland) vehicle Strike Up the Band, 1940, directed by Busby Berkeley with dance numbers by Vincente Minnelli.

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  8. Strike Up the Band was definitely not an Aarons-Freedly or a Ziegfeld musical. It underscored man's often trivial and venal rationale for going to war; Kaufman scourged profiteering, jingoism, diplomacy, business manipulations--it was not a conventional song and dance show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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