And the Angels Sing (1944)
April 25, 1944Release Date
And the Angels Sing (1944)
April 25, 1944Release Date
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Dorothy Lamour
Nancy Angel
Fred MacMurray
Happy Morgan
Betty Hutton
Bobby Angel
Diana Lynn
Josie Angel
Mimi Chandler
Pattie Angel
George Marshall
Director
Raymond Walburn
Pop Angel
Claude Binyon
Writer
Eddie Foy Jr.
Fuzzy Johnson
Frank Albertson
Oliver
Melvin Frank
Writer
Mikhail Rasumny
Schultz
Norman Panama
Writer
Victor Young
Composer
Frank Faylen
Holman
George McKay
House Man
Karl Struss
Cinematographer
Harry Barris
Saxy
Donald Kerr
Mickey
Perc Launders
Miller
Tom Kennedy
Potatoes
Erville Alderson
Mr. Littlefield
Billy Bletcher
Club Patron (uncredited)
Jimmy Conlin
Messenger (uncredited)
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And the Angels Sing is a 1944 musical film directed by George Marshall and starring Dorothy Lamour, Fred MacMurray, and Betty Hutton. Released by Paramount Pictures, it is a classic example of a film written to capitalize on the title of a previously popular song, in this case Benny Goodman's 1939 number one hit, "And the Angels Sing" by Ziggy Elman and Johnny Mercer, sung by Martha Tilton, though the song is not actually in the film. The standout original songs in the musical were "It Could Happen To You", sung by Dorothy Lamour, which quickly became a pop standard, and "His Rocking Horse Ran Away", which became one of Betty Hutton's most popular numbers.
The story is about a singing sister group, their exploitation by a bandleader, and their subsequent rise to fame. One of the sisters is portrayed by Mimi Chandler, daughter of former Kentucky governor and baseball commissioner Happy Chandler. "Happy" is also the name of Fred MacMurray's character in the story.
Time magazine wrote about the film at the time, "From [the start of] Happy's two-timing, [it] gets more & more complicated and less & less funny. Too much of this dizzy story shows signs of hard labor; about half is rather enjoyable. Betty Hutton (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) gets funnier with every picture. She is the most startling expression of natural force since the Johnstown Flood.