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And the Angels Sing
Directed by
George Marshall
Written by
Claude Binyon Melvin Frank Norman Panama
Starring
Dorothy Lamour Betty Hutton Fred MacMurray Diana Lynn Mimi Chandler
Cinematography
Karl Struss
Edited by
Eda Warren
Music by
Victor Young James Van Heusen Johnny Burke
Production company
Paramount Pictures
Distributed by
Paramount Pictures
Release date
April 25, 1944 (1944-04-25)
Running time
96 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
And the Angels Sing is a 1944 American musical comedy film directed by George Marshall and starring Dorothy Lamour, Fred MacMurray, and Betty Hutton. Released by Paramount Pictures, it is a classic example of a film written to capitalize on the title of a previously popular song, in this case Benny Goodman's 1939 number one hit, "And the Angels Sing" by Ziggy Elman and Johnny Mercer, sung by Martha Tilton, though the song is not actually in the film. The standout original songs in the musical were "It Could Happen To You", sung by Dorothy Lamour, which quickly became a pop standard, and "His Rocking Horse Ran Away", which became one of Betty Hutton's most popular numbers.
The story is about a singing sister group, their exploitation by a bandleader, and their subsequent rise to fame. One of the sisters is portrayed by Mimi Chandler, daughter of former Kentucky governor and baseball commissioner Happy Chandler. "Happy" is also the name of Fred MacMurray's character in the story.
Time magazine wrote about the film at the time, "From [the start of] Happy's two-timing, [it] gets more & more complicated and less & less funny. Too much of this dizzy story shows signs of hard labor; about half is rather enjoyable. Betty Hutton (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) gets funnier with every picture. She is the most startling expression of natural force since the Johnstown Flood.[1]
^"The New Pictures". Time 43/22 (May 29, 1944).
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