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FOLLOW THE BOYS
USA 1944. Universal Pictures Company
CAST:
George Raft (Tony West); Vera Zorina (Gloria Vance West);
Charley Grapewin (Nick West); Grace McDonald (Kitty West);
Charles Butterworth (Louie Fairweather); George Mac Ready
(Walter Bruce); Elizabeth Patterson (Annie); Theodore von
Eltz (William Barrett); Regis Toomey (Dr. Jim Henderson);
Ramsay Ames (Laura); Spooks (Junior); Mack Gray (Lt. Reynolds);
Molly Lamont (Miss Hartford, the secretary); John Meredith
(Blind soldier in Jeanette MacDonald's number); Ralph Gardner
(Patient in Jeanette MacDonald's number); John Estes (Patient);
Doris Lloyd (Nurse); Charles D. Brown (Col. Starrett); Nelson
Leigh (Bull Fiddler); Lane Chandler (Ship's officer); Cyril
Ring (Laughton, Life photographer); Emmett Vogan (Harkness,
Life reporter); Addison Richards (McDermott, Life editor);
Frank Larue (Mailman); Tony Marsh (First officer); Stanley
Andrews (Australian officer); Leslie Denison (Reporter); Leyland
Hodgson (Australian reporter); Bill Healy (Ship's officer);
Jimmy Carpenter, Bernard Thomas, John Whitney, Walter Tetley,
Joel Allan, Carlyle Blackwell, Michael Kirk, Mel Schubert,
Stephen Wayne, Charles King (soldiers); Ralph Dunn (Loomis);
Billy Benedict (Joe, a soldier); Grandon Rhodes (George Grayson);
Howard Hickman (Dr. Wood); Edwin Stanley (Film director);
Roy Darmour (Eddie, assistant director); Carl Vernell (Terry
Dennis, dance director); Wallis Clark (Victory Committeeman);
Richard Crane (Marine officer); Frank Wilcox (Captain Williams,
Army doctor); Carey Harrison, William Forrest (Colonels);
George Riley (Jimmy); Steve Brodie (Australian pilot); Jack
Wegman (Mayor); Clyde Cook, Bobby Barber (Stooges); Dick Nelson
(Sergeant); Anthony Warde (Captain); Tom Hanlon (Announcer);
Don McGill, Franklin Parker, Martin Ashe (men in the office);
Dennis Moore (H.V.C. officer); Odessa Lauren, Nancy Brinckman,
Janet Shaw, Jan Wiley (Telephone operators); Bill Dyer (Messanger
boy); Duke York (M.P.); Lennie Smith, Bob Ashley (Jitterbugs);
Jackie Lou Harding (Girl in montage), Genevieve Bell (mother
in montage); Edwin Stanley (Room clerk); Don Kramer, Allan
Cooke, Luis Torres Nicholai, John Duane, Ed Browne, Claire
Freeman, Bill Meader, Eddie Kover (Dancers); Tony Hughes (man);
Billy Wayne (columnist); Lee Bennett (acrobat); Daisy (Fifi);
John Cason (soldier of radio); George Eldridge (submarine
officer); Marie Osborne (nurse); Nicodemus Stewart (Lt. Reynolds);
George "Shorty" Chirello (Welles's assistant); Janice Gay,
Jane Smith, Marjorie Fectean, Doris Brenn, Rosemary Battle,
Lolita Leighter, Mary Rowland, Eleanor Counts, Linda Brent
(magic maids); Bill Wolf (zoot suiter); Frank Jenks (Chic
Doyle). Guest Stars Appearing as Themselves: Jeanette MacDonald,
Orson Welles's Mercury Wonder Show, Marlene Dietrich, Dinah
Shore, Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan, W.C. Fields, The Andrew
Sisters, Artur Rubinstein, Carmen Amaya and Her Company, Sophie
Tucker, The Delta Rhythm Boys, Leonard Gautier's dog-act "The
Bricklayers", Agustin Castellon Sabicas, Ted Lewis and his
Band, Freddie Slack and his Orchestra, Charlie Spivak and
his Orchestra, Louis Jordan and his Orchestra. In the Hollywood
Victory Committee Sequence: Louise Beavers, Clarence Muse,
Maxie Rosenbloom, Maria Montez, Susanna Foster, Louise Allbritton,
Robert Paige, Alan Curtis, Lon Chaney, Jr., Gloria Jean, Andy
Devine, Turhan Bey, Evelyn Ankers, Noah Beery, Jr., Gale Sondergaard,
Peter Coe, Nigel Bruce, Thomas Gomez, Lois Collier, Samuel
S. Hinds, Randolph Scott, Martha O'Driscoll, Elyse Knox, Philo
McCullough; stars in film clips: Joan Bennett, Hedy Lamarr,
Martha Scott, Irene Dunn.
CREDITS:
Eddie Sutherland (Director); Charles K. Feldman (Producer);
Albert L. Rockett (Associate Producer); Jack Rawlins (Director
of additional scenes); Lou Breslow (Director of Delta Rhythm
Boys sequence); Howard Christie, William Holland, Willard
Sheldon (Assistant Director); Joe Schoenfeld (Writer of epilogue
"Soldiers in greasepaint"); David Abel (Photographer); Charles
Van Enger (Photographer of additional scenes); Hal Mohr (Photographer
of Delta Rhythm Boys sequence); Wallace Chewning (Camera operator);
M. Nathan (Camera Assistant); Ross Savon (Gaffer); E. Esterbrook
(Stills Photographer); John P. Fulton (Special Photographic
Effects); Carl Lee (Special Effects); John B. Goodman, Harold
H. MacArthur (Art Directors); Fred R. Feitshans, Jr. (Editor);
Russell A. Gausman, Ira S. Webb (Set Decorators); Dan Fish
(Props); Vera West (Gowns); Howard Greer (Miss Zorina's Gowns);
Lackritz (Miss Zorina's Jewelry); Leigh Harline (Musical Director);
George Hale (Dance Creator and Director); George Balanchine
(Dance director); Bernard B. Brown (Sound Supervisor); Robert
Pritchard (Sound Technician); Frank Artman (Boom operator);
William Schwartz (Recording operator); Henry C. Rogers (Pub.);
based on an original screenplay by Lou Breslow and Gertrude
Purcell.
MUSIC: "Swing Low, Sweet
Chariot", traditionall, arranged by Henry Thacker Burleigh;
"I Feel a Song Coming On" by Jimmy Mc Hugh, Dorothy Fields,
George Oppenheim; "Furlough Fling" by Charles Weintraub and
Frank Davenport; "Besame Mucho" by Consuelo Velásquez; "Liebestraum"
by Franz Liszt; "Sweet Georgia Brown" by Ben Bernie and Maceo
Pinkard; "Merriment" by Augustín Castellón Sabicas.
SONGS: "Good Night"
by Leo Wood, Con Conrad and Irving Bibo; "Tonight" by Walter
Donaldson (Music) and Kermit Goell (Lyrics); "The Bigger the
Army and Navy" Jack Yellen; "Kittens with Their Mittens Laced"
by Inez James and Sidney Miller; "Beyond the Blue Horizon"
by Richard A. Whiting, W. Franke Harling and Leo Rubin; "I'll
Walk Alone", "A Better Day is Comin" by Jule Styne (Music)
and Sammy Cahn (Lyrics); "I'll Get By" by Fred E. Ahlert (Music)
and Roy Turk (Lyrics); "Is You Is, or Is You Ain't My Baby"
by Lewis Jordan and Billy Austin; "I'll See You In My Dreams"
by Gus Kahn and Isham Jones; "The House I Live In" by Earl
Robinson (music) and Lewis Allan (lyrics); "Shoo Shoo, Baby"
by Phil Moore; "Mad About Him Blues" by Larry Marks and Dick
Charles; "Some of These Days" by Shelton Brooks.
Black-and-White. 122 minutes
Production Date: 1943
Premiere: April 1944
Oscar Nomination 1944 (17th): Music (Song): Jule Styne, Sammy
Cahn
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