Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943 film)
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| Directed by | David Butler |
| Starring | Humphrey Bogart Bette Davis Errol Flynn |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1943 |
| Running time | 124 min. |
| Country | U.S.A. |
| Language | English |
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Thank Your Lucky Stars is a 1943 film made by Warner Brothers as a World War II fundraiser. It was directed by David Butler and starred Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie, Edward Everett Horton and S. Z. Sakall.
The film was a musical with a slim plot, involving movie producers (Morgan and Sakall) uniting with a songwriter (Leslie) to find talent for a wartime charity program. Many of Warner Brothers stars performed in musical numbers, including several who were not known as singers. Each of the cast members was paid a $50,000 fee for their appearance which was then donated to the Hollywood Canteen. [1]
The film was popular with audiences, and the critic James Agee called it "the loudest and most vulgar of the current musicals. It is also the most fun." [2] Ticket sales combined with the donated salaries of the performers raised more than two million dollars for the Hollywood Canteen. [3]
[edit] Musical numbers
"Thank Your Lucky Stars" by Dinah Shore.
"How Sweet You Are" by Dinah Shore.
"The Dreamer" by Dinah Shore, also performed as a reprise by Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino and George Tobias.
"Love Isn't Born" by Ann Sheridan.
"Ridin' For a Fall" by Dennis Morgan and Joan Leslie.
"Good Night, Good Neighbour" by Dennis Morgan with an accompanying dance by Alexis Smith.
"Ice Cold Katie" by Hattie McDaniel and Willie Best
"Goin' North" by Jack Carson and Alan Hale
"They're Either Too Young, Or Too Old" by Bette Davis, followed by a jitterbug performance by Davis and a dance contest winner, Conrad Weidel.
"That's What You Jolly Well Get" by Errol Flynn.
"No You, No Me" by Dennis Morgan and Joan Leslie.
"We're Staying Home Tonight" by Eddie Cantor.
"Blues in the Night" by John Garfield.
[edit] External links
- Thank Your Lucky Stars at the Internet Movie Database
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Spada, James, More Than a Woman, Little, Brown and Company, 1993, ISBN 0-316-90880-0 p 194
- ^ Ringgold, Gene, The Films of Bette Davis, Cadillac Publishing Co., 1966, p 123
- ^ Spada, James, More Than a Woman, Little, Brown and Company, 1993, ISBN 0-316-90880-0 p 195
