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Summer Stock UK title If You Feel Like Singing is a 1950 MetroGoldwynMayer musical film. The film was directed by Charles Walters, stars Judy Garland and Gene Kelly, and features Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven, Marjorie Main, and Phil Silvers. Nicholas Castle Sr was the choreographer.

Jane Falbury Judy Garland is a farm owner whose actress sister Abigail Gloria DeHaven arrives at the family farm with her theater troupe. They need a place to rehearse, and Jane and her housekeeper Esme Marjorie Main reluctantly agree to let them use their barn. The actors and actresses, including the director Joe Ross Gene Kelly, repay her hospitality by doing chores around the farm. Although Joe is engaged to Abigail, he begins to fall in love with Jane after Abigail leaves him in an angry fit. Similarly, although Jane is engaged to Orville Eddie Bracken, she falls in love with Joe.The films most famous scene is the final songanddance number Get Happy performed by Judy Garland in a tuxedo jacket, black fedora, and black nylons to an arrangement by Skip Martin. This sequence was choreographed by Charles Walters and filmed two months after the rest of the movie, after Garland sought the help of a hypnotist in Santa Barbara and lostpounds. Garland performed the number perfectly in just a couple of takes, and the rest is history. According to New York Times critic Bosley Crowther Get Happy finds Miss Garland looking and performing her best. ........

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