Greenwich Village (film)

Greenwich Village is a 1944 film from Twentieth Century Fox directed by Walter Lang. It stars Carmen Miranda and Don Ameche.

Information in the Twentieth CenturyFox Produced Scripts Collection, located at the UCLA ArtsSpecial Collections Library, indicates that Robert Ellis, Helen Logan and Valentine Davies worked on early versions of the screenplay for this picture. Their contribution to the completed film is doubtful, however. According to aOct 1942 HR news item, Alice Faye and Phil Regan were originally scheduled to star in the picture. Other actors announced by HR as having been cast included Ronald Graham, Jack Oakie who was to play Danny OMara according to studio records, Phil Baker and Perry Como who was to make his debut in the picture. In Jul 1943, HR also reported that Lillian Porter had been cast in the film, but her appearance in the completed picture has not been confirmed. Although the onscreen credits introduce actress Vivian Blaine in Her First Featured Role, Blaine had appeared in several previous productions for Twentieth CenturyFox, including a starring role in the 1943 film Jitterbugs. According to aNov 1943 HR item, the studio placed Blaine into Greenwich Village after showing two theater audiences a test reel of Technicolor footage of Blaine, Gale Robbins, Faye Marlowe, Lois Andrews and Doris Merrick, then asking the audiences to choose their favorite.The picture marked the screen debut of The Revuers, a cabaret group featuring Judy Holliday who is billed as Judith Tuvim on the CBCS, Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Alvin Hammer. Although aFeb 1944 HR news indicated that The Revuers satiric sketch of a Shubert operetta had been purchased by the studio for their debut, their sequence was cut from the finished picture, and modern sources note that the group appears only in the party scene at Bonnie Watsons apartment. After the group broke up, Holliday became a wellknown Broadway and motion picture comedienne and won an Academy Award for Best Actress for Born Yesterday. Comden and Green became a popular songwriting team whose films included On the Town. Actor

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