Anything Goes (1956 film)

Anything Goes is a 1956 American musical film directed by Robert Lewis and starring Bing Crosby, Donald OConnor, Jeanmaire, and Mitzi Gaynor. Adapted from the 1934 stage play Anything Goes by Cole Porter, Guy Bolton, and P.G. Wodehouse, the film is about two entertainers scheduled to appear in a Broadway show together who travel to Paris, where each discovers the perfect leading lady for the female roleeach promising the role to the girl they selected without informing the other. On the return voyage, with each man having brought his leading lady along, the Atlantic becomes a stormy crossing when each man must tell his discovery that she might not get the role.

Showbiz partners Bill Benson and Ted Adams each travel to Paris to sign a dancer to star in their new show. The problem? There is only one role, and the men have unknowingly cast two dancers, Patsy Blair and Gaby Duval. It is up to the men to sort out their mess on the cruise back to America.The primary musical numbers Anything Goes, Youre the Top, I Get a Kick Out of You, Its DeLovely and Blow, Gabriel, Blow appear in the film with updated arrangements, while the lesserknown Porter songs were cut completely, and new songs, written by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn, were substituted. These substitutions ranged from the lively tap number by Donald OConnor with bouncy children and as many bouncy balls You Can Bounce Right Back to the crazy kitsch Secondhand Turban. Musical numbers were staged by Nick Castle, with the Anything Goes number staged by Ernie Flatt, and Roland Petit providing the choreography of I Get a Kick of You for his wife Zizi Jeanmaire. ........

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