Good News (1947 film)

Good News
Good News
	Poster for the 1947 film
Directed by	Charles Walters
Screenplay by	Betty Comden; Adolph Green
Based on	Good News; 1927 musical; by Lew Brown; Laurence Schwab; Frank Mandel; Buddy G. DeSylva; Ray Henderson
Produced by	Arthur Freed
Starring	June Allyson; Peter Lawford; Patricia Marshall
Cinematography	Charles Schoenbaum
Edited by	Albert Akst
Music by	Conrad Salinger
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	Loew's Inc.
Release dates	December 26, 1947 (New York City); July 27, 1948 (United States);
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1,715,000
Box office	$2,956,000

Good News is a 1947 American Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical film based on the 1927 stage production of the same name. It starred June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Mel Tormé, and Joan McCracken. The screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green was directed by Charles Walters in Technicolor.

Three additional songs were written for the film: "The French Lesson", "Pass That Peace Pipe", and "An Easier Way", the last of which was cut from the released film.^[2]

Good News was the second adaptation of the stage musical, after the 1930 film Good News. The 1947 film was a more sanitized version of the musical; the 1930 version included Pre-Code content, such as sexual innuendo and lewd suggestive humor.

^ ^a ^b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
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[Mannix-1] The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

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