For Me and My Gal (1942)

Directed by

Busby Berkeley

Genre

war film, musical film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 54 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two vaudeville performers fall in love and navigate their careers and romance as World War I breaks out. The story follows their struggles to stay together when one of them is drafted into the army.

nostalgicupbeatromanticbittersweetlivelysentimentalwartime

What happens

For Me and My Gal is a 1942 American musical film directed by Busby Berkeley, and starring Judy Garland, George Murphy, Martha Eggerth, Ben Blue and Gene Kelly in his film debut. The film was written by Richard Sherman, Fred F. Finklehoffe and Sid Silvers, based on a story by Howard Emmett Rogers inspired by a true story about vaudeville actors Harry Palmer and Jo Hayden, when Palmer was drafted into World War I. The film was a production of the Arthur Freed unit at MGM. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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