Babes in Arms (1939)

Directed by

Busby Berkeley

Genre

musical film, romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 45 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of kids attempt to stage a musical show to prove that their vaudeville parents are wrong about them. They work together to chase their dream of performing on Broadway.

energeticupbeatwhimsicallightheartednostalgicsprightlyoptimistic

What happens

Babes in Arms is the 1939 coming of age American film version of the 1937 Broadway musical of the same title. Directed by Busby Berkeley, it stars Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, and features Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee, June Preisser, Grace Hayes, and Betty Jaynes. It was Garland and Rooney's second film together as lead characters after their earlier successful pairing in the fourth of the Andy Hardy films. The film concerns a group of youngsters trying to put on a show to prove their vaudevillian parents wrong and make it to Broadway. The original Broadway script was significantly revamped, restructured, and rewritten to accommodate Hollywood's needs. Almost all of the Rodgers and Hart songs from the Broadway musical were discarded. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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