Pin-Up Girl (1944)
- Starring:
- Betty Grable, John Harvey, (more)
- Director(s):
- H. Bruce Humberstone
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of Pin-Up Girl
Despite the film's title, Pin-Up Girl offers surprisingly few glimpses of the famed Betty Grable "gams." This lively Technicolor musical casts Gable as Lorrie Jones, secretary at a USO canteen frequented by handsome servicemen. Falling in love with war hero Tommy Dooley (John Harvey), Lorrie contrives to be near him wherever he goes by posing as a world-famous Broadway star. As a result, she is hired as a USO entertainer -- and becomes a star for real. Despite considerable competition from such veteran funsters as Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye, the film's comic honors are stolen by Dorothea Kent, cast as Lorrie's bespectacled, man-hungry best pal. Choreographed by Hermes Pan, the dance numbers in Pin-Up Girl are among Betty Grable's best, especially "I'll be Marching to a Love Song" -- portions of which later showed up in the patriotic two-reeler The All-Star Bond Rally. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 83 mins
Complete Cast of Pin-Up Girl
- Betty Grable - Lorry Jones
- Martha Raye - Marian
- Eugene Pallette - Barney Briggs
- Dorothea Kent - Kay
- The Condos Brothers - Specialty Dancer
- Marcel Dalio - Headwaiter
- Leon Belasco - Captain of Waiters
- Walter Tetley - Messenger Boy
- Max Willenz - Waiter
- Charles Moore - Redcap
- Charlie Spivak & Orchestra - Himself
- Lillian Porter - Cigarette Girl
- John Harvey - Tommy Dooley
- Joe E. Brown - Eddie
- Skating Vanities - Themselves
- Dave Willock - Dud Miller
- Robert E. Homans - Stage Doorman
- Roger Clark - George
- Irving Bacon - Window Cleaner
- Ruth Warren - Scrubwoman
- Mantan Moreland
- Angela Blue - Specialty Dancer
- Hermes Pan
- John Farrell MacDonald - Trainman
- Director(s):
- H. Bruce Humberstone
- Writer(s):
- Helen Logan, Robert Ellis, Earl W. Baldwin
- Producer(s):
- William Le Baron
- Categories:
- Comedy
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