Small Town Girl (1953 film)

Small Town Girl is a 1953 musical film directed by Lszl Kardos and starring Jane Powell, Farley Granger, and Ann Miller. Busby Berkeley choreographed several dance numbers. Bobby Van performed the memorable Street Dance, in which he hopped all around town. The film features song performances by Nat King Cole. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, My Flaming Heart, with music by Nicholas Brodszky and lyrics by Leo Robin.

Rick Belrow Livingston Farley Granger, in love with selfobsessed Broadway star Lisa Ann Miller, is sentenced todays in jail for speeding through a small town. Quite by accident, he meets the daughter of the judge, Cindy Kimbell Jane Powell. He persuades her to let him out for one night, so that he can visit Lisa on the premise he is seeing his poor sick mother Billie Burke on her birthday. After tracking him down and bringing him back to town, Cindy starts to fall for Livingston, but Dr. Schlemmer S.Z. Sakall wants her to marry his son Bobby Van even though he desperately wants a career on Broadway.According to MGM records the film made 1,365,000 in the U.S. and Canada and 762,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss of 287,000. ........

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