Good News (1947) (1947)
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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… More 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
- Directed By
- Charles Walters
- Written By
- Betty Comden
- Genres
- Romance, Musical & Performing Arts, Classics, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Dec 26, 1947 Wide
- Studio
- MGM Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Steve Crum, Video-Reviewmaster.com
Bouncy MGM college-themed musical sparkles with June Allyson.
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Cast
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June Allyson
as Connie Lane
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Morris Ankrum
as Dean Griswold
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Tom Dugan
as Pooch
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Connie Gilchrist
as Cora the Cook
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Jane Green
as Mrs. Drexel
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Peter Lawford
as Tommy Marlowe
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Georgia Lee
as Flo
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Donald MacBride
as Coach Johnson
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Patricia Marshall
as Pat McClellan
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Joan McCracken
as Babe Doolittle
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Ray McDonald
as Bobby Turner
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Robert E. Strickland
as Peter Van Dyne III
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Clinton Sundberg
as Prof. Burton Kennyone
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Loren Tindall
as Beef
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Mel Tormé
as Danny
- Bill Harbach
- Ken Davis
