It Happened in Brooklyn

It Happened in Brooklyn is a 1947 MGM musical romantic comedy film directed by Richard Whorf and starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford, and Jimmy Durante and featuring Gloria Grahame and Marcy McGuire. It Happened in Brooklyn was Sinatras third film for MetroGoldwynMayer, who had purchased his contract from RKO because Louis B. Mayer was a huge Sinatra fan.full citation needed

A postWorld War II feelgood movie, It Happened in Brooklyn begins in England at the end of the war. Danny Miller Frank Sinatra is with a group of GIs awaiting transportation home to the US. On his last night there, he meets Jamie Shellgrove Peter Lawford, who is a very shy young man whose grandfather feels should be taken under someones wing. After observing Miller come to his grandsons aid at the piano, he asks Danny to speak with his son, to give him some words of encouragement. In order to look good in front of the nurse Gloria Grahame, he agrees, even going so far as to saying what would really fix Jamie up would be for him to come to Brooklyn. As he rushes out to catch his transport to the docks for the voyage home, Danny discovers that Jamie is really the heir to a duke. Upon Dannys return to Brooklyn, the film revolves around characters realizing their dreams of escaping workingclass drudgery in Sinatras case to become a singermusician rather than a shipping clerk, in Lawfords case to break out of his extreme shyness to gain a wife and a career as a songwriter, and in Graysons case to break out of her schoolteaching job to star in the opera although this last is not shown coming to pass, but she presumably lives happily ever after as she is brought to England as the fiance of the Lawford character, who is heir to a dukedom. The films tagline was Happy songs Happy stars Happy romance. Lawford dances while singing a song, a performance that was particularly well received by both critics and public, outshining future fellow Rat Pack member Sinatra. One highlight of the film is seeing and hearing Sinatra and Grayson singing L ci darem la mano from Mozarts 1787 opera Don Giovanni.The original director was supposed to be George Sidney,citation needed but he was replaced by Richard Whorf, who is probably best known for his television directing, particularly The Beverly Hillbillies, Gunsmoke and My Three Sons. Filming was interrupted for approximately ten days when

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