"The Polka Dot Polka" THE GANG'S ALL HERE Busby Berkeley
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- Release Date: 1943
- Runtime: 103 min
- Genre: Musical, Romance
- Starring: Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Phil Baker, Benny Goodman ... see all
- Director: Busby Berkeley
- Plot: Playboy Andy Mason, on leave from the army, romances showgirl Eadie Allen overnight to such effect that she's starry-eyed when he leaves next morning for active duty in the Pacific.... Read more
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| Dec 01, 2007New York Post
In the flick's most notorious -- not to mention Freudian and totally jaw-dropping -- number ("The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat"), Carmen is joined by a line of chorus girls wielding 7-foot-long bananas.
The Gang's All Here" received a major theatrical revival in the early 1970s at what then known as the Playboy Theatre (now the DGA) with IB prints showing off Edward Cronjager's dazzling Technicolor cinematography.
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Unabashed escapism
bangkokpost.com –
2008-09-12
There are times when a big, noisy, mindless musical scratches an itch that no other kind of movie can reach, and that is why God created people like Busby Berkeley, Carmen Miranda, and Alice Faye. ... Full Article
Must-See DVD
nypost.com –
2007-02-18
Busby Berkeley's "The Gang's All Here'' (1943), which apparently has never been legitimately available in this country on video in any format, finally debuts on DVD Tuesday and it's a stunner. ... Full Article
New York at night is confusing. After work, you reconfigure your mind with wine, go to an art opening, attend a dinner party with artists to discuss what happened to them in some other country, then get your eardrums blasted... ... Full Article
In his heyday, jazz clarinet player and bandleader Benny Goodman was the undisputed "King of Swing." He was born the eighth son to an immigrant family of 12 on the west side of Chicago. ... Full Article