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 dates	24 August 1947
Running time	93 mins
Country	United States
Language	English

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.

The film featured a cartoon sequence in Technicolor which is in black and white in most prints.

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

Celebrity appearances

External links

Variety Girl at the Internet Movie Database

v t e Films directed by George Marshall

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1920s	Ruth of the Rockies (1920)

1930s	Pack Up Your Troubles (1932) Their First Mistake (1932) Towed in a Hole (1932) She Learned About Sailors (1934) 365 Nights in Hollywood (1934) Life Begins at Forty (1935) Music Is Magic (1935) A Message to Garcia (1936) The Goldwyn Follies (1938) You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939) Destry Rides Again (1939)

1940s	The Ghost Breakers (1940) When the Daltons Rode (1940) Pot o' Gold (1941) Texas (1941) Valley of the Sun (1942) The Forest Rangers (1942) Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) Riding High (1943) True to Life (1943) And the Angels Sing (1944) Murder, He Says (1945) Incendiary Blonde (1945) Hold That Blonde (1945) The Blue Dahlia (1946) Monsieur Beaucaire (1946) The Perils of Pauline (1947) Variety Girl (1947) Hazard (1948) Tap Roots (1948) My Friend Irma (1949)

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1960s	Cry for Happy (1961) The Happy Thieves (1961) Papa's Delicate Condition (1963) Dark Purpose (1964) Advance to the Rear (1964) Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966) Eight on the Lam (1967) The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz (1968) Hook, Line & Sinker (1969)

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