Golden Girl (film)

Golden Girl
Theatrical release poster
Directed byLloyd Bacon
Screenplay byWalter Bullock
Charles O'Neal
Gladys Lehman
Story byAlbert Lewis
Arthur Lewis
Edward Thompson
(From a Story by)
Produced byGeorge Jessel
StarringMitzi Gaynor
Dale Robertson
Dennis Day
James Barton
Narrated byGeorge Jessel
CinematographyCharles G. Clarke
Edited byLouis R. Loeffler
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
20th Century Fox
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • November 1, 1951 (1951-11-01)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.5 million (US rentals)[1][2]

Golden Girl is a 1951 American Musical Western film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Mitzi Gaynor, Dale Robertson, Dennis Day and James Barton.[3]

The original song, "Never," written by Lionel Newman and Eliot Daniel, and sung by Dennis Day in the film, earned the film its only Academy Award nomination.[4]

The picture is loosely based on the life of famed entertainer Lotta Crabtree, who was known as "The Golden Girl" (1847–1924).[5]

  1. ^ "The Top Box Office Hits of 1951", Variety, January 2, 1952.
  2. ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 224
  3. ^ "Golden Girl". filmaffinity.com. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
  4. ^ http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/76638/Golden-Girl/articles.html [bare URL]
  5. ^ "AFI|Catalog".