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Which rarely screened comedy has what Gene Kelly calls some of his favorite dance creations? That's right: Living in a Big Way. This 1947 movie is Kelly in a big way. Like many postwar films, Living in a Big Way embraces a familiar theme: the plight of the returning servicemen. Kelly returns home to the war bride he scarcely knows and finds she has misgivings about their impulsive nuptials. While sorting out this personal problem, he involves himself in a public one: construction of housing for the huge number of homeless vets. Marie McDonald plays Kelly's bride (a role Louis B. Mayer hoped would launch her on a Lana Turner-type career). But the film's true focal point is Kelly. You'll see him cavorting with a clever dog, wooing a statue, scampering across the beams of an uncompleted apartment and joining children in a medley of games.
Original Release
06/10/1947
US Release
06/10/1947
Cast
Name | Character |
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Gene Kelly | Leo Gogarty |
Marie McDonald | Margo Morgan |
Charles Winninger | D. Rutherford Morgan |
Phyllis Thaxter | Peggy Randall |
Spring Byington | Mrs. Minerva Alsop Morgan |
Jean Adair | Abigail Morgan |
Clinton Sundberg | Everett Hanover Smythe |
John Warburton | 'Skippy' Stuart Simms / Skippy' Stuart Simms |
William 'Bill' Phillips | Schultz |
Bernadene Hayes | Dolly |
Directors
Writers
Gregory La Cava, Irving Ravetch
Cast
Name | Character |
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Gene Kelly | Leo Gogarty |
Marie McDonald | Margo Morgan |
Charles Winninger | D. Rutherford Morgan |
Phyllis Thaxter | Peggy Randall |
Spring Byington | Mrs. Minerva Alsop Morgan |
Jean Adair | Abigail Morgan |
Clinton Sundberg | Everett Hanover Smythe |
John Warburton | 'Skippy' Stuart Simms / Skippy' Stuart Simms |
William 'Bill' Phillips | Schultz |
Bernadene Hayes | Dolly |
John Alexander | Attorney Ambridge |
Phyllis Kennedy | Elsie, the Maid / Annie Pearl, the Maid |
Ernie Adams | Process Server |
Anne Beck | Junior League Girl |
Wilson Benge | Servant |
Georgie Billings | Marine |
Barbara Billingsley | G.I. Bill's Wife |
Gladys Blake | Bit Role |
Ruth Brady | Mary |
James Burke | Murphy |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Pandro S. Berman | Producer |