Small Town Girl

1953
Approved
1 Std. 32 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,3/10

954

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Jane Powell, Farley Granger, Ann Miller, and Bobby Van in Small Town Girl (1953)

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Feel-Good Romance Musical Romance

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA judge's daughter keeps an eye on a playboy who gets 30 days in jail for speeding.A judge's daughter keeps an eye on a playboy who gets 30 days in jail for speeding.A judge's daughter keeps an eye on a playboy who gets 30 days in jail for speeding.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,3/10

954

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Für 1 Oscar nominiert
- 1 Nominierung insgesamt

Wissenswertes
For the reprise of "Take Me to Broadway", Bobby Van performs an extended dance sequence in which he jumps continuously for nearly five minutes. At first glance, it appears that he accomplishes the entire routine in one take. However, the dance was so tiring that it was cut into five segments, so that he could rest. The cuts are covered by changes in camera angles and placement.

Patzer
During Ludwig's hopping dance through town, when he goes from the Indian statue to the horse, a shadow of the camera crane is visible and moving on the brick wall behind him.

Zitate
Mrs. Livingston: Isn't he here?
Papa Eric Schlemmer: He is and he isn't. Mostly he's in the jail.

Verbindungen
Featured in Das gibt's nie wieder (1974)

Soundtracks
The Lullaby of the Lord
(uncredited)
Music by Nicholas Brodszky
Lyrics by Leo Robin
Performed by Jane Powell & chorus
[Cindy leads the church choir and congregation in song at the regular church service]

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6/10

The Virtues of the Small Town

Jane Powell gets to try a role first done by Janet Gaynor in a musical remake of Small Town Girl. Though she has top billing the best numbers in the film are given to Bobby Van and Ann Miller.

Playboy Farley Granger goes whizzing through Jane's small town and interrupts the church service. The cops clock Farley at 85 miles an hour and he's arrested and hauled before Judge Robert Keith. Farley's passenger is fiancé and musical comedy star Ann Miller. They're in a big rush to elope.

As it turns out the Judge is Jane's father and Farley's attitude earns him 30 days in the joint. Jane also has a boyfriend in Bobby Van, the son of the local department store owner, S.Z. Sakall. Of course she takes one look at handsome Farley and she shifts her romantic gears.

The big number that everyone remembers from Small Town Girl is Take Me to Broadway where Bobby Van acts like a human pogo going through the entire town or at least one very big MGM soundstage. The original film had James Stewart in Van's part and was considerably smaller.

Robert Taylor was in Farley Granger's part and wasn't quite as haughty or arrogant as Granger plays it here. Yet in both cases you can see why the small town girl thought Prince Charming arrived.

Small Town Girl is not the best MGM musical done, nor is it the best of Jane Powell's films for MGM. But it's entertaining enough.