Two producers are putting together a wartime charity show with an all star cast but the egotism of radio personality eddie cantor disrupts their plans. In 2010, i revealed i had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Tv appearance photos quickreference guide 19621970 this page is intended to be an image reference guide which includes still photos and screen captures from film and video clips. Jokes are fine, but dont post tactlessinappropriate ones.
Yet the film is massively entertaining all the same, and watching some of hollywoods biggest, most powerful and more magnetic movie stars play fast and loose with their screen personalities is a total hoot start to finish. The movie features the film debut of dinah shore, who dazzles in the picture. The musical numbers in the film hang on a flimsy plot about an unknown songwriter and an unknown singer played by joan. To celebrate and share this musical love, im starting a weekly feature about musicals. The pics are not thumnails and are not linked to larger photos.
Thank your lucky stars 1943 cast and crew moviefone. Thank your lucky stars is hypnotic head trip music of the highest caliber. Thank your lucky stars is one of the most pleasant nostalgia trips to a bygone era of the studio system. Thank your lucky stars idioms by the free dictionary. Thank your lucky stars 1943 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Watch thank your lucky stars uk season 5, episode 43 july 17, 1965. Read the thank your lucky stars movie synopsis, view the movie trailer, get cast and crew information, see movie photos, and more on. Watch thank your lucky stars uk season 2, episode 14 december 9, 1961. Definition of thank lucky stars in the idioms dictionary. Of all the shows presenters, brian matthew is perhaps the best remembered. At the end are some related tracks including a full dinah shore radio program that leads with a version of thank your lucky stars. Thank your lucky stars as an eddie cantor vehicle this is topped by some of his previous efforts but its chiefly due to the banjoeyed comedian that the thing is pulled together during its. Thank your lucky stars letterboxd your life in film. Thank your lucky stars was a british television pop music show made by abc television, and broadcast on itv from 1961 to 1966. To thank your lucky stars definition and meaning collins. Spiritually, the album feels closer to the darker mood the duo cultivated before they signed to sub pop. Thank your lucky stars may be my favourite of the all star bond films turned out by the studios during the war thanks to a few of its specialty acts.
Thank your lucky stars manufactured on demand on tcm shop. Well, thank your lucky stars yes, thank your lucky stars its doing fine. Solar music rights management, warner chappell, and 1 music rights societies. Thank your lucky stars is an awfully odd comedymusical extravaganza, and its certainly a product of its time.
Thank your lucky stars film, a 1943 film thank your lucky stars tv series, a british television programme thank your lucky stars whitehouse album, a 1990 album by the british band whitehouse thank your lucky stars beach house album, a 2015 album by american dream pop band beach house. If you say that someone should thank their lucky stars that something is the case, you. Thank your lucky stars 1943, directed by david butler. Suprise release thank your lucky stars is beach houses second fulllength in as many months. These do not indicate that footage of all these programs still exists. Many of the top bands performed on it, and for millions of british teenagers it was essential viewing.
Thank your lucky stars was an itv pop show, presented by brian matthew, that ran from 1961 to 1966. Eddie cantor carries the show with his singing talent and selfdeprecation he plays both a lampoon of himself and an eddie cantor lookalike, whose career is sidelined because he looks too much like eddie cantor. A wartime musical extravaganza and home front morale booster with a huge cast of warner brothres musical and nonmusical stars including cameos by bette davis, humphrey bogart, john garfield and others. Nearly every step the movie makes feels completely random, with no payoff. If you say that someone should thank their lucky stars that something is the case, you mean that they should be very grateful that it is the case. Its no secret that the hollywood comet loves musicals. See the full list of thank your lucky stars cast and crew including actors, directors, producers and more. Thank your lucky stars is a 1943 american musical comedy film made by warner brothers as a world war ii fundraiser, with a slim plot, involving theater producers. A cavalcade of studio stars sing and dance, some of them with, to put it bluntly, limited singing ability. Beach house once again has us drifting slowly in musical space. Thank your lucky stars and its official show party bbc. Ive probably had it before, but i ordered this one because thank your lucky stars has come out on bluray. The stars donated their salaries to the hollywood canteen, which was founded by john garfield and bette davis, who appear in this film. The stars come out to play in the joyous world war llera thank your lucky stars.
During wwii, hollywood came up with the notion that all star revues would be just the thing to revive the audiences flagging spirits, and soon these. Dont get in arguments with people here, or start long discussions. You couldnt afford to pay all the stars in this film today if they were all free lance independent contractors today. A breezy, behindthehollywoodscenes story about young talents hoping for a big break glitters with specialty numbers featuring golden era greats. Its not nearly as good as mgms similar thousands cheer, but the musical numbers in thank your lucky stars are scrumptious and putting the lame plot aside its a lively musical that no doubt cheered up audiences during wartime and no doubt provided some much. Over coffee and biscuits rich tea, if youre wondering brian tells me about filming it in. I agree, kingrat, that a little of eddie cantor can go a very long way but its fun to see bette davis let herself get thrown around by a jitterbug, or whatever he was, on the dance floor for her.