My Gal Sal (1942)

Directed by

Irving Cummings

Genre

comedy film, biographical film, musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 43m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young songwriter runs away from home and finds success in New York City's music scene. He falls for a musical star and writes a famous tune for her.

livelyromanticnostalgiclightheartedwhimsicalupbeatcharming

What happens

My Gal Sal is a 1942 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Rita Hayworth, Victor Mature, John Sutton, and Carole Landis. A biographical film of 1890s German-American songwriter Paul Dresser, it was based on a biographical essay, sometimes erroneously referred to as a book, by Dresser's younger brother, novelist Theodore Dreiser (Dreiser was the original German family name). Some of the songs portrayed as Dresser's work were actually written by him, but several others were created in the 1890s style for the film by the Hollywood songwriting team of Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin. In the film, Dresser runs away from his Indiana home and, following a brief stopover with a medicine show, arrives in the Gay Nineties era of New York City. After meeting fictional musical star Sally Elliott, he composes the title tune for her and becomes the toast of Tin Pan Alley. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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