Meet the People (1944)
- Starring:
- Lucille Ball, Dick Powell, (more)
- Director(s):
- Charles "Chuck" Riesner
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MGM's musical extravaganza Meet the People top-bills two future powerful TV executives: Dick Powell and Lucille Ball. Ball plays a popular but stuck-up Broadway star who leaves the bright lights to become a welder in a shipyard. Here she meets and falls in love with coworker Powell. This being a wartime musical, the plotline is periodically abandoned for the guest-star turns of the likes of Virginia O'Brien, Bert Lahr, Spike Jones and His City Slickers, Vaughn Monroe, and Mata and Hari. Buried beneath this cornucopia of corn is a stage play by Louis Lantz, upon which Meet the People was supposedly based. (Note: some sources mistakenly list Edward Dmytrk as the director of this film). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Lucille Ball - Julie Hampton
- Virginia O'Brien - "Woodpecker" Peg
- Rags Ragland - Mr. Smith
- Steven Geray - Uncle Felix
- Howard Freeman - Mr. Peetwick
- John Craven - John Swanson
- Miriam Lavelle - Miriam
- Mary McLeod - Girl
- Patsy Moran - Homely Girl
- Eve Whitney
- Celia Travers - Secretary
- Spike Jones Orchestra
- Robert E. O'Connor - Attendant
- Donna King Conkling
- Karin [Katharine] Booth
- Barbara Bedford
- Erin O'Kelly
- Linda Deane
- Natalie Draper
- Peggy Maley
- Spike Jones and His City Slickers - Specialty
- Dickie Hall - Billy, Age 5
- Dick Powell - William "Swanee" Swanson
- Bert Lahr - The Commander
- June Allyson - Annie
- Paul Regan - 'Buck'
- Betty Jaynes - Steffi
- Morris Ankrum - Monte Rowland
- Russell Gleason - Bill
- Kay Medford - Mrs. Smith
- Robert Blake - Jimmy, Age 7
- Pat West - Man
- Fred "Snowflake" Toones - Pullman Porter
- Joey Ray - Dance Director
- Noreen Nash
- Hazel Brooks
- Leon Belasco - Dress Designer
- Roger Moore - Chauffeur
- Thelma Joel
- Kay Williams
- Vaughn Monroe - Himself
- The King Sisters - Specialty
- Creighton Hale - Hotel Clerk
- Myron Healey - Marine
- Director(s):
- Charles "Chuck" Riesner
- Writer(s):
- Fred Saidy, Sig Herzig, Ben Barzman
- Producer(s):
- E.Y. "Yip" Harburg
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