Meet the People (1944)
- Directed by
- Charles Reisner
- Genre
- musical film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Rating
- 5.8 of 10 from 6 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A wartime musical comedy set in a shipyard. A man makes a bet that he can take a common woman and turn her into a star. The woman he chooses works building ships and has her own ideas about who she wants to be.
upbeatwhimsicalnostalgiclightheartedromanticmusicalwartimeenergetic
What happens
Meet the People (1944) is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical comedy film made, and set, during World War II, and starring Lucille Ball and Dick Powell and featuring Virginia O'Brien, Bert Lahr, Rags Ragland and June Allyson. The film takes its title from a successful Los Angeles musical revue, which ran on Broadway from December 25, 1940 to May 10, 1941. Vaughn Monroe and his orchestra, Spike Jones and his City Slickers, and Virginia O'Brien were also in the original stage cast. O'Brien sings the hit song "Say That We're Sweethearts Again". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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