It Happened in Brooklyn

1947
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1h 44m

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6.5/10

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Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante, Kathryn Grayson, and Peter Lawford in It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)

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Comedy Musical Romance

Soldier Danny Miller returns home to Brooklyn after war. Aiming for singing success, he helps friends chasing dreams.Soldier Danny Miller returns home to Brooklyn after war. Aiming for singing success, he helps friends chasing dreams.Soldier Danny Miller returns home to Brooklyn after war. Aiming for singing success, he helps friends chasing dreams.

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IMDb RATING

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Leo Kardos
(as Billy Roy)

Bobby Long

Johnny O'Brien

William Haade

Police Sergeant

Harry Adams

Trustee
(uncredited)

Jack Baker

Father
(uncredited)

Hal Bell

Jitterbugging G.I.
(uncredited)

Chet Brandenburg

Man in Montage
(uncredited)

Leonard Bremen

Corporal
(uncredited)

Harry Burns

Minor Role
(uncredited)

Freddie Chapman

Minor Role
(uncredited)

Director
- Richard Whorf
Writers
- Isobel Lennart
- Jack McGowan
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Trivia
André Previn, who provided the unseen piano solos for the film, received his first onscreen credit for It Happened in Brooklyn (1947). Previn, who was only 17 at the time of production, had been a member of the M-G-M music department for several years prior to his work on this film. Previn went on to work as both a composer and conductor for many films and won a number of Academy® Awards before becoming principal conductor of the London Symphony and other internationally known orchestras.

Goofs
A running joke in the gym is that Danny is so skinny that he needs the weight of a baseball to make a teeter-totter descend. It goes up and down as he and Nick toss a baseball back and forth. At the last pass, the teeter-totter descends before Danny catches the ball.

Quotes
Nick Lombardi: Jamie, we're having a little argument. What color are Annie's eyes?
Jamie Shellgrove: Dark Brown. But in the light they've got little golden flecks.
Danny Webson Miller: How tall is she compared to you?
Jamie Shellgrove: When she's wearing high heels, she comes to here, and low heels, to here.
Danny Webson Miller: Uh, what color nail polish does she use?
Jamie Shellgrove: None. Her hands are like a little girl's. And that perfume she uses, that's like a little girl's too... so clean and soapy. But you know the cutest thing about her? You can always tells when she's going to smile. Just a second before she wrinkles up her nose. Always.

Crazy credits
Opening credits are shown over a drawing of the Brooklyn bridge.

Connections
Edited into Brooklyn Bridge (1981)

Soundtracks
Whose Baby Are You
(uncredited)
Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Music by Jule Styne
Copyright 1947 by Sinatra Songs, Inc.
Sung briefly by Frank Sinatra while playing the piano (dubbed by André Previn)
Later sung and danced by Peter Lawford

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Featured review

6/10

Not bad MGM musical with Sinatra in his early film days

-Shy singer Danny Miller (Frank Sinatra) musters out of the army and returns home to Brooklyn. He ends up rooming with school janitor Nick (Jimmy Durante), while romancing music teacher Anne (Kathryn Grayson). A love triangle forms when Danny's acquaintance Jamie (Peter Lawford) comes over from England in order to try his hand in the music business.

There's a lot of music, and fans of early Sinatra will find much to enjoy. He attempts a semi-operatic duet with Grayson which was ill-advised. Grayson naturally gets a showcase operatic number late in the film during which the momentum screeches to a halt. Durante is amusing, and gets a couple of duets with Frank. Gloria Grahame makes the most of her small role as an army nurse at the film's start.