On the Town (motion picture) - Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller (performers) (1949) (trailer)
Title
On the Town (motion picture) - Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller (performers) (1949) (trailer)
Subject
Motion pictures
Musicals
URL
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Description
Content description from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Town_(film)) :
On the Town is a 1949 Technicolor musical film with music by Leonard Bernstein and Roger Edens and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. It is an adaptation of the Broadway stage musical of the same name produced in 1944 (which itself is an adaptation of the Jerome Robbins ballet entitled Fancy Free which was also produced in 1944), although many changes in script and score were made from the original stage version; for instance, most of Bernstein's music was dropped in favor of new songs by Edens, who disliked the majority of the Bernstein score for being too complex and too operatic. This caused Bernstein to boycott the film.
The film was directed by Gene Kelly, who also choreographed, and Stanley Donen in their directorial debut, and stars Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, and Ann Miller, and features Jules Munshin and Vera-Ellen. It was a product of the Arthur Freed unit at MGM, and is notable for its combination of studio and location filming, as a result of Gene Kelly's insistence that some scenes be shot in New York City, including at the American Museum of Natural History, the Brooklyn Bridge, and Rockefeller Center.
Ephemera: available through the CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. One page from Under Cover magazine (date unknown) with program description and many handwritten notes by JWK.
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On the Town is a 1949 Technicolor musical film with music by Leonard Bernstein and Roger Edens and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. It is an adaptation of the Broadway stage musical of the same name produced in 1944 (which itself is an adaptation of the Jerome Robbins ballet entitled Fancy Free which was also produced in 1944), although many changes in script and score were made from the original stage version; for instance, most of Bernstein's music was dropped in favor of new songs by Edens, who disliked the majority of the Bernstein score for being too complex and too operatic. This caused Bernstein to boycott the film.
The film was directed by Gene Kelly, who also choreographed, and Stanley Donen in their directorial debut, and stars Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, and Ann Miller, and features Jules Munshin and Vera-Ellen. It was a product of the Arthur Freed unit at MGM, and is notable for its combination of studio and location filming, as a result of Gene Kelly's insistence that some scenes be shot in New York City, including at the American Museum of Natural History, the Brooklyn Bridge, and Rockefeller Center.
Ephemera: available through the CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. One page from Under Cover magazine (date unknown) with program description and many handwritten notes by JWK.
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen (directors)
Leonard Bernstein and Roger Edens (composers)
Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, and Ann Miller (performers)
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Date
1949 December 18
Citation
“On the Town (motion picture) - Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller (performers) (1949) (trailer),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections at Arizona State University, accessed October 13, 2026, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/480.