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Girl Crazy is a 1943 American musical film starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. Produced by the Freed Unit of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it is based on the stage musical Girl Crazy – which was written by Guy Bolton and Jack McGowan, with music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin.
Girl Crazy: Directed by Norman Taurog, Busby Berkeley. With Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Gil Stratton, Robert E. Strickland. A philandering young playboy is sent to college somewhere in the American West, and organizes a show, together with his sweetheart, to save the college from closure due to falling enrollments.
- (2.2K)
- Comedy, Musical
- Norman Taurog, Busby Berkeley
- 1944-07-31
Girl Crazy is a 1930 musical by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book by Guy Bolton and John McGowan. Ethel Merman made her stage debut in the first production and co-lead Ginger Rogers became an overnight star. Rich in song, it follows the story of Danny Churchill who has been sent to fictional Custerville, Arizona, to manage ...
YouTube Movies & TV. 181M subscribers. Subscribed. 201. The eighth pairing of Oscar-winners Judy Garland ("The Wizard of Oz," "Meet Me in St. Louis") and Mickey Rooney ("Babes in Toyland,"...
Girl Crazy (1943) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #GirlCrazyMickey Rooney. Judy Garland. Gershwin music. And Tommy Dorsey to play it. Who could ask for anything m...
- 3 min
- 10.2K
- Warner Bros. Classics
Distracted by female students and performing poorly in the classroom, Danny Churchill Jr. (Mickey Rooney) moves west to a university that his father believes is free of temptation. Soon, though,...
- (6)
- Musical, Comedy
Girl Crazy casts Rooney as an irresponsible young playboy who's sent to a Western mining school where Garland, as the dean's daughter, helps straighten him out. Together they save the financially strapped college by staging a rodeo/beauty contest/musical extravaganza.