Babes in Arms (film)

Babes in Arms
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Busby Berkeley
Written by	Uncredited: John Meehan Noel Langley[1] Anita Loos Florence Ryerson Annalee Whitmore Fadiman Edgar Allan Woolf
Screenplay by	Jack McGowan Kay Van Riper
Based on	Babes in Arms (1937 stage musical) by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart
Produced by	Arthur Freed
Starring	Mickey Rooney Judy Garland
Cinematography	Ray June
Edited by	Frank Sullivan
Music by	Songs: Arthur Freed (lyrics) & Nacio Herb Brown (music); Richard Rodgers (music) & Lorenz Hart (lyrics); Harold Arlen (music) & E. Y. Harburg (lyrics); Roger Edens (music & lyrics) et al.
Production company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	Loew's, Inc.
Release dates	September 15, 1939 (1939-09-15) (Houston) October 13, 1939 (1939-10-13) (United States)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$745,341[2][3]
Box office	$3,335,000[2][3]

Babes in Arms is the 1939 American film version of the 1937 coming-of-age Broadway musical of the same title. Directed by Busby Berkeley, it stars Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, and features Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee, June Preisser, Grace Hayes, and Betty Jaynes. It was Garland and Rooney's second film together as lead characters after their earlier successful pairing in the fourth of the Andy Hardy films. The film concerns a group of youngsters trying to put on a show to prove their vaudevillian parents wrong and make it to Broadway. The original Broadway script was significantly revamped, restructured, and rewritten to accommodate Hollywood's needs. Almost all of the Rodgers and Hart songs from the Broadway musical were discarded.