| The Kid from Brooklyn | |
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| Directed by | Norman Z. McLeod |
| Produced by | Samuel Goldwyn |
| Starring | Danny Kaye Virginia Mayo Vera-Ellen The Goldwyn Girls Walter Abel Eve Arden Steve Cochran Fay Bainter Lionel Stander |
| Cinematography | Gregg Toland |
| Edited by | Daniel Mandell |
| Music by | Carmen Dragon (uncredited) |
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| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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Running time | 113 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,450,000[1] or over $2 million[2] |
| Box office | $5,490,000 (worldwide rentals)[3] |
The Kid from Brooklyn is a 1946 American musical comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Steve Cochran, Walter Abel, Eve Arden, and Fay Bainter. Virginia Mayo's and Vera-Ellen's singing voices were dubbed by Betty Russell and Dorothy Ellers, respectively.[4]
Produced by Samuel Goldwyn, it is a remake of the Harold Lloyd film The Milky Way (1936) about a milkman who becomes world boxing champion. Lionel Stander plays the role of "Spider" Schultz in both versions of the movie.
- ^ Variety 12 September 1945 p 12
- ^ "Audience penetration". Variety. 17 April 1946. p. 32.
- ^ Jewell, Richard B. (1994). "RKO Film Grosses, 1929-1951: the C.J. Tevlin ledger". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 14 (1): 37–49. doi:10.1080/01439689400260031.
- ^ Despite modern awareness of these uncredited singers, even some professional authors continue to ascribe singing to the actors, e.g. "capitalized on the stylized vocals of the radiant Virginia Mayo", in Frederick V. Romano, The Boxing Filmography: American Features, 1920-2003 (Jefferson NC: McFarland, 2004), 108; ISBN 9780786417933