For Me and My Gal (1942) (The Big Time) (1943)

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7.1	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Busby Berkeley

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Judy Garland
Jo Hayden

George Murphy
Jimmy K. Metcalf

Gene Kelly
Harry Palmer

Mártha Eggerth
Eve Minard

Ben Blue
Sid Simms

Stephen McNally
Mr. Waring

Ernie Alexander
Theater Workman with Big Die

Hooper Atchley
Assistant Stage Manager

Written by

Sid Silvers
(screenplay)

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For Me and My Gal

5 years, 10 months ago at Jun 3 16:35

JxSxPx

For Me and My Gal is mainly remembered for two different reasons: Gene Kelly and Judy Garland. This was Kelly’s first film role, and it makes a stellar first impression, and a transitional role for Garland. Here she was changing over from the girl-next-door parts to an ingenue and taking on more grown-up parts. It’s a bit of a goopy wartime musical/morale booster, but a very enjoyable on... read more

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Jo Hayden (Judy Garland) and Harry Palmer (Gene Kelly) are a struggling vaudeville act with hopes of making it big. When success seems right around the corner, Palmer is drafted into the army at the advent of World War I. Thinking quickly, Palmer injures his hand to avoid being called to duty, but Hayden -- whose brother died in the war -- finds his action cowardly and breaks up the duo. Now, Palmer must figure out a way to bring them back together, even if it means going to war.

Release date: 2 August 1943
UPC: 085393498320

Tags: Musical (5), War (4), WWI (4), 1942 (3), Romance (3), 1940s (3), Parade (2), Roosevelt (2), German (2), Battlefield (2), France (2), B&w (2), Explosion (2), Fight (2), Footage (1), Hand (1), Armistice (1), Wounded (1), Transport (1), Grenade (1)

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For Me and My Gal

“For Me and My Gal is mainly remembered for two different reasons: Gene Kelly and Judy Garland. This was Kelly’s first film role, and it makes a stellar first impression, and a transitional role for Garland. Here she was changing over from the girl-next-door parts to an ingenue and taking on more grown-up parts. It’s a bit of a goopy wartime musical/morale booster, but a very enjoyable one. A love story between vaudeville performers looking for their big break before the outbreak of World War I, For Me and My Gal is a bit routine in parts but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. There’s plenty of morally gray spaces that the film inhibits, mainly in Kelly’s character who rapidly loses audience sympathy before working overtime to gain it back, to keep your attention even when ” read more