Anchors Aweigh
ON WAVES OF SONG, LAUGHTER AND ROMANCE ! TWO LOVE-LOST SAILORS ON A FOUR-DAY LEAVE OF FUN AND FRIVOLITY !
Country
Production
Budget
$2 600 000
Box office
$7 500 000
Director
Actors
Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, José Iturbi, Dean Stockwell, Pamela Britton, Rags Ragland, Billy Gilbert, Henry O'Neill, Carlos Ramírez
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Camera operator
Robert H. Planck
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
Short description
Two sailors, Joe and Clarence have four days shore leave in spend their shore leave trying to get a girl for Clarence. Clarence has his eye on a girl with musical aspirations, and before Joe can stop him, promises to get her an audition with José Iturbi. But the trouble really starts when Joe realizes he's falling for his buddy's girl.
What's left behind the scenes
- Initially, it was planned for Gene Kelly (1912-1996) to dance with Mickey Mouse, but Walt Disney (1901-1966) did not allow his famous character to appear in a film from MGM studio, so Kelly decided to use Jerry Mouse from the “Tom and Jerry” franchise. At first, it didn't work because the animators forgot to draw Jerry's shadow. They had to create an additional 10,000 new drawings, which took 2 months and $100,000.
- It took Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) eight weeks to learn the dance on the pier. The scene was shot in 72 takes, although this is more attributable to Gene Kelly’s perfectionism than to Sinatra’s inability to dance. Sinatra later said that in those eight weeks he could have filmed an entire movie.
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