Errol Flynn proposed singing as the cockney bar patron, because he wanted to do something different, according to McNulty’s book.Īlmost every song in the movie is worth noting because so many unique performances from stars you usually don’t get to hear singing: All of the stars were paid $50,000 for the film which was donated to the Hollywood Canteen, according to “ Errol Flynn: The Life and Career” by Thomas McNulty. Olivia De Havilland is dubbed by Lynn Martin. Though not dubbed in every movie, Joan Leslie is dubbed by Sally Sweetland. This is the last of nine movies Errol Flynn and Olivia De Havilland star in together. Davis didn’t want to spoil the take, because she didn’t think she could do the dance again, according to Chandler’s book. She hurt her leg during the dance, and you can see she is limping at the end of the dance and rubs her leg but completes the number. I’m just some dame you picked up at the dance hall,” she told him. Davis never rehearsed the dance with Wiedell, because she was afraid she could only get through the dance once, according to the book “ The Girl Who Walked Home Alone” by Charlotte Chandler. During Bette Davis’s musical number, she jitterbugs with champion jitterbugger Conrad Wiedell. This is one of the few movies where Bette Davis sings- another film where she sings is “ What Ever Happened to Baby Jane.” She performs the musical number “ They’re Either Too Young or Too Old.” Stars who usually don’t appear in musicals perform in the film such as Bette Davis, Ida Lupino and Errol Flynn.ĭennis Morgan and Joan Leslie are one of the few stars in “Thank Your Lucky Stars” who don’t play themselves. Zany comedic moments and confusion ensue as Eddie Cantor has to prove he is the real Eddie Cantor. Singer Tommy Randolph, played by Dennis Morgan, and his girlfriend Pat, played by Joan Leslie, try to get into the show and replace the real Cantor with a bus driver who looks just like Cantor (also played by Eddie Cantor). Egotistical Eddie Cantor, playing himself, takes over the production. The plot that runs between the musical numbers is about producers (played by S.Z Sakall and Edward Everett Horton) who want to put on a wartime charity event for soldiers. “ Thank Your Lucky Stars” is a movie with less of a plot and more musical numbers from the top stars of the 1940s. Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) –Musical Number 470Īll top Warner Brothers stars: Eddie Cantor, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland, Ida Lupino, Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, John Garfield, George Tobias, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Dinah Shore, Alexis Smith, Joan Leslie, Alan Hale, S.Z. To celebrate and share this musical love, I’m starting a weekly feature about musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.
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