Mister Big (1943 film)
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Genre Comedy, Music Initial release May 28, 1943 Running time 1h 4m | 7.4/10 IMDb Duration Director Costume design Vera West | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Dorothy Bennett (screenplay), Jack Pollexfen (screenplay), Virginia Rooks (original story) Genres Musical, Comedy, Musical comedy Cast (Donald J. O'Connor), (Peggy), (Patricia Davis), (Mrs. Mary Davis), (Johnny Hanley), (Alice Taswell) Similar movies Related Charles Lamont movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gloria jean in person introducing mister big 1943
Mister Big is a 1943 musical directed by Charles Lamont, starring Donald O'Connor, Gloria Jean and Peggy Ryan. The film features the song "Rude, Crude, and Unattractive".
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This was the final of seven, successive B movie musicals that Universal Pictures cast with Donald O’Connor after he signed in 1941. When his popularity soared prior to release, the studio added $50,000 in musical numbers and distributed it as an A. His subsequent films were all A's.
Plot
In a school for the dramatic arts called the Davis School of the Theatre, run by Jeremy Taswell, Donald (Donald O'Connor) has written a musical comedy for the school play. But the owner of the school, Mrs. Davis (Florence Bates)(whose niece, played by Gloria Jean, secretly has a crush on Donald), disapproves and insists that they do a play by Sophocles instead. The students manage to change the play into a musical while Mrs. Davis is traveling to New York. Their triumph is short lived, however, for Mrs. Davis comes back from New York on opening night. At first she becomes quite angry at the students, but changes her tune when a Broadway producer agrees to finance the show and produce it in New York.
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References
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