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Film (1941)

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Musique: George Bassman • George Stoll • Leo Arnaud •
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Babes on Broadway is a 1941 American musical film starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland and directed by Busby Berkeley, with Vincente Minnelli directing Garland's big solo numbers.

Tommy Williams desperately wants to get to Broadway, but as he is only singing in a spaghetti house for tips he is a long way off. He meets Penny Morris, herself no mean singer, and through her gets the idea to promote a show to send orphaned children on a country holiday. But he is only using the kids to get on himself, which Penny soon realises. With his romance off, an engagement in Philadelphia he can't get to, and, indeed, war in Europe, life can be difficult.

Babes on Broadway was the third film in the "Backyard Musical" series, which included Babes in Arms (1939), Strike Up the Band (1940) and Girl Crazy (1943).
The film was stalled in the middle of production when Garland secretly flew to Las Vegas to wed her first husband David Rose. She was 19 years old.

"Babes on Broadway" (Main Title) (MGM Studio Chorus)
"Anything Can Happen in New York" (Mickey Rooney, Ray McDonald, and Richard Quine)
"How About You?" (Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney)
"Hoe Down" (Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Six Hits and a Miss, The Five Musical Maids, and MGM Studio Chorus)
"Chin Up! Cheerio! Carry On!" (Judy Garland, St. Luke's Episcopal Church Choristers, and MGM Studio Chorus)
Ghost Theater Sequence:
> "Cyrano de Bergerac" (Mickey Rooney as Richard Mansfield)
> "Mary's a Grand Old Name" (Judy Garland as Fay Templeton)
> "She's Ma Daisy" (Mickey Rooney as Harry Lauder)
> "I've Got Rings On My Fingers" (Judy Garland as Blanche Ring)
> "La Marseillaise" (Judy Garland as Sarah Bernhardt)
> "The Yankee Doodle Boy" (Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland)
> "Bombshell from Brazil" (Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Richard Quine, Ray McDonald, Virginia Weidler, Anne Rooney, Robert Bradford, and MGM Studio Chorus)
> "Mama Yo Quiero" (Mickey Rooney)
Minstrel Show Sequence:
> "Blackout Over Broadway" (Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Ray McDonald, Virginia Weidler, Richard Quine, Anne Rooney and MGM Studio Chorus)
> "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" (Ray McDonald)
> "Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones" (Judy Garland and MGM Studio Chorus)
> "Old Folks at Home" (Eddie Peabody on banjo, dubbing for Mickey Rooney)
> "Alabamy Bound" (Eddie Peabody on banjo, dubbing for Mickey Rooney)
> "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" (Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Virginia Weidler, Anne Rooney, Richard Quine, and MGM Studio Chorus)
> "Babes on Broadway" (Finale) (Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Virginia Weidler, Ray McDonald, Richard Quine, and MGM Studio Chorus)

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