Gaily, Gaily (1969)

Directed by

Norman Jewison

Genre

comedy film, coming-of-age film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 47m

Rating

4.3 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man moves from a small town to Chicago in the early 1900s. He gets a job at a newspaper and learns about city life and corruption through a series of adventures.

lightheartedwhimsicalnostalgicplayfulbreezycomedicretroslightly chaotic

What happens

Gaily, Gaily (released in the United Kingdom as Chicago, Chicago) is a 1969 American comedy film directed by Norman Jewison. It is a fictionalized adaptation of a 1963 memoir of the same name by Ben Hecht and stars Beau Bridges, Brian Keith, George Kennedy, Hume Cronyn and Melina Mercouri. The film featured two songs sung by Mercouri with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman set to Henry Mancini's music. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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