Something for the Boys (film)

Something for the Boys
Directed byLewis Seiler
Written byHerbert Fields
Dorothy Fields
Screenplay byRobert Ellis
Helen Logan
Frank Gabrielson
Based onSomething for the Boys
1943 musical
by Herbert Fields
Dorothy Fields
Cole Porter
Produced byIrving Starr
StarringCarmen Miranda
Michael O'Shea
Vivian Blaine
Phil Silvers
Sheila Ryan
Perry Como
Glenn Langan
CinematographyErnest Palmer
Edited byRobert L. Simpson
Music byLeigh Harline
Cyril J. Mockridge
Distributed by20th Century-Fox
Release date
  • November 1, 1944 (1944-11-01)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1,250,000[1]

Something for the Boys is a 1944 musical comedy film directed by Lewis Seiler. It stars Carmen Miranda, Michael O'Shea, Vivian Blaine, Phil Silvers, Sheila Ryan and Perry Como.

The screenplay was written by Robert Ellis, Helen Logan and Frank Gabrielson based on the 1943 Broadway musical of the same name starring Ethel Merman with Cole Porter's songs.[2]

  1. ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 220
  2. ^ "Popular Picture Still At Rialto". The Sunday Morning Star. Retrieved 21 December 2015.