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Babes in Arms. Babes in Arms is a 1937 coming-of-age musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, and book by Rodgers and Hart. It concerns a group of small-town Long Island teenagers who put on a show to avoid being sent to a work farm by the town sheriff when their actor parents go on the road for five months in an ...
- Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
- Lorenz Hart
- 1937
- Richard Rodgers
Babes in Arms: Directed by Busby Berkeley. With Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee. A group of vaudevillians struggling to compete with talkies hits the road hoping for a comeback.
- Busby Berkeley
- 49
- 4 min
Babes in Arms is the 1939 American film version of the 1937 coming-of-age Broadway musical of the same title. Directed by Busby Berkeley, it stars Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, and features Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee, June Preisser, Grace Hayes, and Betty Jaynes. It was Garland and Rooney's second film together as lead characters after ...
- $3,335,000
- Arthur Freed
- $745,341
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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. Hailed as one of the finest musical comedies of its era, Babes in Arms introduced several songs into the American Songbook, including “My Funny Valentine,” “The Lady is a Tramp,” “Where or When,” “Johnny One-Note” and “I Wish I Were in Love Again.”. The quintessential “let’s put on a show” musical was ...
A wealthy Southern financier arises but only under the condition that the two black kids be removed from the show. The kids are outraged, but the show must go on, and -- in a triumphant tale of reconciliation, retribution, and romance -- it does! Over sixty years later, the themes in Babes in Arms still resonant
Babes in Arms was one of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's best shows it ran for 289 performances in the 1937 season and boasted such Rodgers&Hart classics as Johnny One Note, Way Out West, My ...
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