A Date with Judy

MGM, 1948, Color, 113 minutes, ***

Fun film featuring Janie and Liz. Janie thinks pop (Beery) is having an affair when he takes Rhumba lessons on the sly from Carmen. Liz plays her young-snooty-girl-with-a-heart-of-gold character, and Robert Stack has trouble deciding whether he's in love with Liz or Janie. Scotty Beckett is fun as Janie's boyfriend. Great cast. Liz is sultry when she sings "It's a Most Unusual Day," and Janie and Company (even Wallace Beery!) get to sing a bit of it too at the end of the movie. Jane singing "Through the Years" for grandpa (Cleveland) is a definite show-stopper.

Produced by: Joe Pasternak
Directed by: Richard Thorpe
Screen Play: Dorothy Cooper and Dorothy Kingsley
Based on the Characters Created by Aleen Leslie
Musical Direction: Georgie Stoll
Songs: "It's a Most Unusual Day" (by) Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson; "Judaline" (by) Don Raye and Gene dePaul; "I'm Strictly on the Corny Side" (by) Stella Unger and Alec Templeton
Musical Arrangements: Leo Arnaud, Albert Sendry and Robert Franklyn
Dance Direction: Stanley Donen
Art Directors: Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse
Set Decorations: Edwin B. Willis
   Associate: Richard A. Pefferle
Women's Costumes: Helen Rose
Hair Styles Designed by: Sydney Guilaroff
Make-Uo Created by: Jack Dawn
Recording Director: Douglas Shearer
Special Effects: Warren Newcombe
Color by: Technicolor
Director of Photography: Robert Surtees
Technicolor Color Director: Natalie Kalmus
   Associate: Henri Jaffa
Film Editor: Harold F. Kress

Cast:
Wallace Beery ... Melvin R. Foster
Jane Powell ... Judy Foster
Elizabeth Taylor ... Carol Pringle
Carmen Miranda ... Rosita Conchelias
Xavier Cugat ... Himself
Robert Stack ... Stephen Andrews
Selena Royle ... Mrs. Foster
Scotty Beckett ... Ogden "Oogie" Pringle
Leon Ames ... Lucien T. Pringle
George Cleveland ... Gramps
Lloyd Corrigan ... Pop Scully
Clinton Sundberg ... Jameson
Jean McLaren ... Mitzie
Jerry Hunter ... Randolph Foster
Buddy Howard ... Jo-Jo Hoffenpepper
Lillian Yarbo ... Nightingale
Eula Guy ... Miss Clarke
Francis Pierlot ... Professor Green
Rena Lenart ... Olga
Sheila Stein ... Little Girl in Drug Store
Paul Bradley ... Headwaiter
Polly Bailey ... Elderly Woman
Alice Kelley ... Girl
Fern Eggen ... Miss Sampson

Songs:
[0:00] Overture: "Judaline" / "I'm Strictly on the Corny Side" (played by Orchestra behind titles)
[0:03] It's a Most Unusual Day (sung by Jane Powell)
[0:05] It's a Most Unusual Day (reprised, sultry style, by a dubbed Elizabeth Taylor)
[0:13] Through the Years (sung by Jane Powell with George Cleveland)
[0:22] Love Is Where You Find It (sung by Jane Powell with high school dance band conducted by Scotty Beckett)
[0:49] Love Is Where You Find It (short reprisal by Jane Powell)
[0:51] I'm Strictly on the Corny Side (sung and danced by Jane Powell and Scotty Beckett)
[1:11] Judaline (sung by Jane Powell with Scotty Beckett and male quartet)
[1:19] Home Sweet Home (sung by Jane Powell, Selena Royle and Jerry Hunter)
[1:28] Judaline (reprised by Scotty Beckett and friends serenading Judy)
[1:34] I'm Cookin' with Gas (sung and danced by Carmen Miranda with Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra)
[1:40] Cuanto Le Gusta (sung and danced by Carmen Miranda with Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra)
[1:51] It's a Most Unusual Day (reprised in finale by Jane Powell, joined by the whole company and chorus, including Elizabeth Taylor, Wallace Beery, Xavier Cugat, Carmen Miranda, Selena Royle, Scotty Beckett and Robert Stack)
several additional instrumental numbers I can't identify are played in the background for dancing