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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 effort to earn some money by reviving vaudeville.
- 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 .
- $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 ...
Boasting one of the best scores of Broadway’s Golden Age, Babes in Arms has seen success at such prestigious venues as the Goodspeed Opera House (featuring Andrea McArdle) in 1979, City Center in 1999, and at countless high schools, colleges and regional theatres across the country.
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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Babes in Arms. Mickey Moran, son of an old vaudeville-team puts on his own show to avoid being sent with other vaudevillians' children to a work farm, but that isn't ...
