Variety Girl
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| Variety Girl | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | George Marshall |
| Produced by | Daniel Dare |
| Written by | Monte Brice Edmund L. Hartmann Frank Tashlin Robert L. Welch |
| Starring | Mary Hatcher Olga San Juan DeForest Kelley Frank Ferguson Glenn Tyron Nella Walker Torben Meyer Jack Norton William Demarest |
| Music by | Johnny Burke Jimmy Mulcay Mildred Mulcay Edward H. Plumb |
| Cinematography | Lionel Lindon Stuart Thompson |
| Editing by | LeRoy Stone |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 24 August 1947 |
| Running time | 93 mins |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Variety Girl (1947) is an all-star movie musical produced by Paramount Pictures. Numerous Paramount contract players and directors make cameos or perform songs, with particularly large amounts of screen time featuring Bing Crosby. The story revolves around two young girls who exchange identities, causing confusion at the Variety Club (show-business charity) and the Paramount studio.
The elaborate closing song, "Harmony," begins with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope singing and dancing on stage in matching checkered suits and straw hats, eventually moves to a merry-go-round with Gary Cooper in cowboy regalia seated on a plastic horse while talking through a couple of stanzas with Barry Fitzgerald, then gradually incorporates the entire cast, which includes almost everyone under contract to Paramount at the time, in a rousing finale launched by William Holden and Ray Milland chasing a scantily-clad woman across a soundstage.
[edit] Cast
- Mary Hatcher as Catherine Brown
- Olga San Juan as Amber La Vonne
- DeForest Kelley as Bob Kirby
- Frank Ferguson as R.J. O'Connell
- Glenn Tyron as Bill Farris
- Nella Walker as Mrs. Webster
- Torben Meyer as Andre
- Jack Norton as Busboy at Brown Derby
- William Demarest as Barker
