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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 starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, and Gene Kelly, with songs by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn. Directed by George Sidney, the film also features José Iturbi, Pamela Britton, and Dean Stockwell.
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 with the famed pianist and conductor Iturbi at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In a sequence, Kelly dances with the animated Jerry Mouse from Tom and Jerry.[5]
The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one, for best scoring. It received highly positive reviews and became a financial success.
- ^ Anchors Aweigh at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- ^ Hanson, Patricia King, ed. (1999). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1941-1950. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. p. 71. ISBN 0-520-21521-4.
- ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
- ^ "All-Time Top Grossers", Variety, 8 January 1964, pg 69.
- ^ Higham, Charles; Greenberg, Joel (1968). Hollywood in the Forties. London: A. Zwemmer Limited. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-498-06928-4.