Rich kid Danny Churchill has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to be a female for miles. But before Danny arrives, he spies a pair of legs extending out from under a stalled roadster. They belong to the Dean's granddaughter, Ginger Gray, who is more interested in keeping the financially strapped college open than falling for Danny's romantic line. At least at first...
Direction
Busby Berkeley's 'I Got Rhythm' finale: 6 minutes of escalating madness.
Acting
Judy Garland at 21, already carrying entire productions on her shoulders.
Cinematography
Technicolor so saturated the desert practically glows.
Director
Norman Taurog
Mickey Rooney
Danny Churchill, Jr.
Judy Garland
Ginger Gray
Gil Stratton
Bud Livermore
Rags Ragland
'Rags'
June Allyson
Specialty Singer
Nancy Walker
Polly Williams
Guy Kibbee
Dean Phineas Armour
Frances Rafferty
Marjorie Tait
Henry O'Neill
Mr. Danny Churchill, Sr.
Howard Freeman
Governor Tait
Tommy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey
Eve Whitney
Showgirl (uncredited)
Noreen Nash
Showgirl (uncredited)
Charles Walters
Dancer (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'I Got Rhythm' sequence required 100 pianos and took three weeks to film. Berkeley originally wanted 500.
This was Rooney and Garland's last fully collaborative MGM musical; her rising stardom and his declining box office would soon pull them apart.
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