Anchors Aweigh

Starring: Gene Kelly & Frank Sinatra Director: George Sidney

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.

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