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The film version, released in 1939, starred Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney and was directed by Busby Berkeley. The radically revised script retained only two songs from the original stage version—"Where or When" and "Babes in Arms". The film is credited with popularizing the trope of children staging musicals to raise money for charities.
- Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
- 1937
Babes in Arms SynopsisOriginal 1937 ProductionStills from the 1937 Original Broadway Production ACT ONEAt an actors’ colony in Seaport, Long Island during the Great Depression, two married couples hurriedly complete their packing for a five-month vaudeville tour. Promising to send money, they say goodbye to their sons, Val LaMar and Marshall Blackstone, who are left alone with a mere $1.65 ...
Babes in Arms (1939) was the third of eight movies Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney made together (the count actually goes up to ten, technically speaking, if you include the MGM all-star extravaganza Thousands Cheer (1943), in which they both have cameo roles as themselves but don't appear together, and Words and Music (1948) in which Garland and Rooney perform a duet to "I Wish I Were in Love ...
- Busby Berkeley, William Ryan
- Mickey Rooney
The film version, released in 1939, starred Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney and was directed by Busby Berkeley. The radically revised script retained only two songs from the original stage version—"Where or When" and "Babes in Arms".
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Billie Smith. About seventeen years old, Billie travels from California to Seaport, alongside some “pretty tough characters,” after failing to launch an acting career in Hollywood. In need of a job, she meets Val, falls for his charms, and joins his good fight. Though Billie is accustomed to the restless life of a vagabond train hopper, she ...
In 1959, under the supervision of Richard Rodgers, George Oppenheimer revised the script for a production mounted at the Royal Poinciana Playhouse in Palm Beach, starring Julie Wilson. That revision became the officially licensed script presented through the decades.
Mickey Rooney. Mickey Moran. Judy Garland. Patsy Barton. Charles Winninger. Joe Moran. Guy Kibbee. Judge Black. June Preisser. Rosalie Essex. Margaret Hamilton. Martha Steele. Grace Hayes. Florrie...
