Anchors Aweigh (film)

Anchors Aweigh
Original promotional poster
Directed byGeorge Sidney
Screenplay byIsobel Lennart
Based onYou Can't Fool a Marine
1943 story in This Week
by Natalie Marcin
Produced byJoe Pasternak
Starring
Cinematography
Edited byAdrienne Fazan
Music byGeorgie Stoll
Color processTechnicolor
Production
companies
Distributed byLoew's Inc.[1]
Release date
  • July 19, 1945 (1945-07-19) (New York City)[2]
Running time
140 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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.

  1. ^ Anchors Aweigh at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  4. ^ "All-Time Top Grossers", Variety, 8 January 1964, pg 69.
  5. ^ Higham, Charles; Greenberg, Joel (1968). Hollywood in the Forties. London: A. Zwemmer Limited. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-498-06928-4.