Babes on Broadway
Babes on Broadway is a 1941 American musical film starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland and directed by Busby Berkeley, with Vincente Minnelli directing Garlands big solo numbers. The film, which features Fay Bainter and Virginia Weidler, was the third in the Backyard Musical series about kids who put on their own show, following Babes in Arms 1939 and Strike Up the Band 1940. Songs in the film include Babes on Broadway by Burton Lane music and E.Y. Yip Harburg lyrics, and How About You? by Lane with lyrics by Ralph Freed, the brother of producer Arthur Freed. The movie ends with a minstrel show performed by the main cast in blackface.
The film was stalled in the middle of production when Garland secretly flew to Las Vegas to wed her first husband David Rose. She wasyears old.According to MGM records the film earned 2,363,000 in the US and Canada and 1,496,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of 1,720,000. ........
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