Good News (1947)
- Starring:
- June Allyson, Morris Ankrum, (more)
- Director(s):
- Charles Walters
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of Good News
This second film version of the DeSylva/Brown/Henderson Broadway musical Good News may not be the best of the Arthur Freed-produced MGM musicals, but it's certainly one of the peppiest. The film is set at Tait college during the Roaring 20s. The wisp of a plot involves Tait football-star Peter Lawford, who will be ineligible to play in the Big Game if his grades don't improve. June Allyson is the demure Tait coed who takes on the task of tutoring Lawford, while campus vamp Patricia Marshall takes action when she believes (rightly so) that she is losing Lawford to Allyson. The film is deftly stolen by comic relief Joan McCracken, who stops the show with her energetic rendition of "Pass That Peace Pipe"--which, like the famous Lawford/Allyson duet "The French Lesson," was specially written for this 1948 version of Good News. Retained from the original score is the rousing "Varsity Drag." Mel Torme, Tom Dugan and Donald McBride are among the familiar supporting-cast faces in this bubbly Technicolor musical, which was adapted for the screen by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 93 mins
Complete Cast of Good News
- June Allyson - Connie Lane
- Tom Dugan - Pooch
- Jane Green - Mrs. Drexel
- Georgia Lee - Flo
- Patricia Marshall - Pat McClellan
- Ray McDonald - Bobby Turner
- Clinton Sundberg - Prof. Burton Kennyone
- Mel Tormé - Danny
- Morris Ankrum - Dean Griswold
- Connie Gilchrist - Cora the Cook
- Peter Lawford - Tommy Marlowe
- Donald MacBride - Coach Johnson
- Joan McCracken - Babe Doolittle
- Robert E. Strickland - Peter Van Dyne III
- Loren Tindall - Beef
- Director(s):
- Charles Walters
- Writer(s):
- Lew Brown, Frank Mandel, Buddy G. DeSylva
- Producer(s):
- Arthur Freed
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- Romance
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