Babes on Broadway

Babes on Broadway
Theatrical film poster by William Rose
Directed byBusby Berkeley
Vincente Minnelli (uncredited)
Written byFred F. Finklehoffe
Produced byArthur Freed
StarringMickey Rooney
Judy Garland
CinematographyLester White
Edited byFredrick Y. Smith
Music byScore:
Leo Arnaud
George Bassman
George Stoll
(all uncredited)
Songs:
Burton Lane (music)
Roger Edens (music)
E.Y. Harburg (lyrics)
Ralph Freed (lyrics)
et al. (all uncredited)
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's Inc.
Release dates
  • December 31, 1941 (1941-12-31) (New York City)
  • January 22, 1942 (1942-01-22) (Los Angeles[1])
Running time
118 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$955,000[2]
Box office$3.8 million[2]

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.[3] The film, which features Fay Bainter and Virginia Weidler, was the third in the "Backyard Musical" series about kids who put on their own show, following Babes in Arms (1939) and Strike Up the Band (1940). Songs in the film include "Babes on Broadway" by Burton Lane (music) and E.Y. "Yip" Harburg (lyrics), and "How About You?" by Lane with lyrics by Ralph Freed, the brother of producer Arthur Freed. The movie ends with a minstrel show performed by the main cast in blackface.

  1. ^ "1942". graumanschinese.org. Retrieved December 2, 2023.
  2. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  3. ^ Higham, Charles; Greenberg, Joel (1968). Hollywood in the Forties. London: A. Zwemmer Limited. p. 172. ISBN 0-302-00477-7.