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Directed by | George Sidney |
Screenplay by | Isobel Lennart |
Based on | You Can't Fool a Marine 1943 story in This Week by Natalie Marcin |
Produced by | Joe Pasternak |
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Edited by | Adrienne Fazan |
Music by | Georgie Stoll |
Color process | Technicolor |
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Distributed by | Loew's Inc.[1] |
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Running time | 140 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2.6 million[3] |
Box office | $7.5 million[3][4] |
Anchors Aweigh is a 1945 American musical comedy film directed by George Sidney, starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, and Gene Kelly, with songs by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn. The film also features José Iturbi, Pamela Britton, Dean Stockwell, and Sharon McManus.
The plot concerns two sailors on a four-day shore leave in Hollywood, who meet a young boy and his aunt, an aspiring young singer, and try to help her get an audition for José Iturbi at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In a sequence, Kelly dances with the animated Jerry Mouse.[5]
The film received mixed reviews but it became a financial success.
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