Good News (1947 film)

Good News
Poster for the 1947 film
Directed byCharles Walters
Screenplay byBetty Comden
Adolph Green
Based onGood News
1927 musical
by Lew Brown
Laurence Schwab
Frank Mandel
Buddy G. DeSylva
Ray Henderson
Produced byArthur Freed
StarringJune Allyson
Peter Lawford
Patricia Marshall
CinematographyCharles Schoenbaum
Edited byAlbert Akst
Music byConrad Salinger
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's Inc.
Release dates
  • December 26, 1947 (1947-12-26) (New York City)
  • July 27, 1948 (1948-07-27) (United States)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,715,000[1]
Box office$2,956,000[1]

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.

  1. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Easier was invoked but never defined (see the help page).