Anchors Aweigh

Starring: Frank Sinatra; Kathryn Grayson & Gene Kelly Director: George Sidney

DVD Features:

Audio:

• Dolby Digital Mono - English
• Dolby Digital Mono - French

Additional Release Material:

• Trailers - Original Theatrical (3)
• Excerpts From MGM Documentary Series: WHEN THE LION ROARS
• Interviews - 1.William Hanna - Animation Legend
                    2.Joseph Barbera - Animation Legend

Interactive Features:

• Scene Access

Major Awards:

Academy Awards - Best Adapted or Musical Song/Score (1945)

Description by OLDIES.com:

Given free rein in choreographing Anchors Aweigh, Gene Kelly was eager to do the unexpected. But what? "How about doing a dance with a cartoon?" collaborator and friend Stanley Donen asked. How about it indeed. Kelly's live-action fancy footwork with animated Jerry (of Tom and Jerry) remains a milestone of movie fantasy. Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson also headline this wartime tale of two sailors on leave in Hollywood. Sinatra's "I Fall in Love Too Easily", the exuberant Kelly/Sinatra "We Hate to Leave" and other highlights helped Anchors Aweigh weigh in with an Academy Award for Best Scoring of A Motion Picture, plus four more Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Actor (Kelly).

Product Description:

Gangway for Sinatra and Kelly as song and dance lead the list of activities when sailors on shore leave fall in with a fatherless boy and his beautiful aunt. Includes the irresistible dance sequence with Kelly and Jerry, the cartoon mouse. Academy Award Nominations: 5, including Best Picture, Best Actor Gene Kelly, Best Song ("I Fall in Love Too Easily"). Academy Awards: Best Scoring of a Musical Picture.

Plot Synopsis:

Two sailors go on a four-day shore leave in Hollywood where, in their relentless effort to pick up girls, they become involved with a charming, fatherless boy who want to join the Navy and his beautiful aunt who's trying to get an audition with famous pianist José Iturbi.

Plot Keywords:

Classic | Comedy | Dance | Musical | Romance

Production Notes:

• The film is well-known for a sequence in which Gene Kelly dances with Jerry (of "Tom and Jerry" fame) in one of the first pairings between a live actor and an animated figure.
• Shot in three-strip Technicolor.
• George Stoll won the Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Musical, though his credit in the film was Musical Director.
• All songs in the film sung by Frank Sinatra were written by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn.
• Earl Brent was the vocal arranger for Kathryn Grayson.
• Gene Kelly's actual credit was for "Dance Sequences Creation."
• MGM Cartoon Studio provided the "Tom & Jerry" cartoon.

Cast and Crew: