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Anchors Aweigh
Starring: Gene Kelly & Frank Sinatra Director: George Sidney

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Format: DVD

Genre: Musicals & The Arts

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Item Number:
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Major Awards:

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

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:

Starring Gene Kelly & Frank Sinatra
Directed by George Sidney
Produced by Joe Pasternak
Edited by Adrienne Fazan
Screenwriting by Isobel Lennart
Composition by George Stoll
Costume Designer by Irene & Kay Dean
Director of Photography Robert Planck & Charles P. Boyle
Production Design by Cedric Gibbons & Randal Duell
Choreography by Gene Kelly
Performer Kathryn Grayson, Jose Iturbi, Dean Stockwell, Pamela Britton, Billy Gilbert, Henry O'Neill & James Burke
Set Design by Edwin B. Willis & Richard Pefferle
Source Writer Natalie Marcin

DVD Details:

  • Label: Warner Home Video
  • Originally Released in: 1945
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Video: Color
  • Release Date: May 13, 2008
  • Item UPC: 883929007608
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx); Counts as 1 item(s) for International Shipping.
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