Present Arms (musical)

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Present Arms

Sheet music cover (cropped)
Music Richard Rodgers
Lyrics Lorenz Hart
Book Herbert Fields
Productions 1928 Broadway

Present Arms is a Broadway musical comedy that opened April 26, 1928, with music by Richard Rodgers, and lyrics by Lorenz Hart. It is based off the book by Herbert Fields. It was produced by Lew Fields with musical numbers stage by Busby Berkeley. It ran for 155 performances at the Lew Fields' Mansfield Theatre.

The show starred Charles King, Flora Le Breton and Busby Berkeley. A man from Brooklyn is serving as a buck private in Pearl Harbor. He flirts with an English Peerโ€™s daughter; however, she is being pursued by a German, who raises pineapples in Hawaii. The Brooklynite pretends to be a Captain in order to make an impression, but he is found out, booted out, and loses out on the girl, until he proves himself in a shipwreck.

Some of the songs from the show are:

  • "You Took Advantage of Me"
  • "A Kiss for Cinderella"
  • "Down By the Sea"
  • "Blue Ocean Blues"
  • "I'm a Fool, Little One"
  • "Crazy Elbows"

Present Arms was filmed in 1930 with Irene Dunne, with its title changed to Leathernecking. The film is presumed lost.

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