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Little Nellie Kelly Overview:

Little Nellie Kelly (1940) was a Comedy - Family Film directed by Norman Taurog and produced by Arthur Freed.

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Little Nellie Kelly (1940)

By The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 17, 2024 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

Mix together Judy Garland, George Murphy, a little romance, and some lovely Irish folk tunes and what have ye? Little Nellie Kelly, that's what. This MGM musical from 1940 features Judy Garland playing not one, but two parts. You may be sad to see her character Nellie Kelly die within the first 20 m... Read full article

Musical Monday: Little Nellie Kelly (1940)

on Mar 11, 2024 From Comet Over Hollywood

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Little Nellie Kelly (194... Read full article

Little Nellie Kelly

By Joey on Apr 13, 2014 From Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest

Little Nellie Kelly https://www.facebook.com/Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest Judy Garland turned 18 in the summer of 1940. Appropriately enough that was the year MGM gave her the chance to tackle her very first adult role in Little Nellie Kelly. Not only that she got to play two parts, a mother and ... Read full article

Little Nellie Kelly

By Joey on Apr 13, 2014 From Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest

Little Nellie Kelly https://www.facebook.com/Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest Judy Garland turned 18 in the summer of 1940. Appropriately enough that was the year MGM gave her the chance to tackle her very first adult role in Little Nellie Kelly. Not only that she got to play two parts, a mother and ... Read full article

Begosh and Begorra, it’s LITTLE NELLIE KELLY!!

By Lara on Mar 17, 2011 From Backlots

As I am writing to you on St. Patrick’s Day, I thought I would give you my own little pot o’ gold, an introduction and critique of that traditionally hard-to-find gem (though getting easier, it is now available on youtube and was just released on DVD!), everybody’s favorite little-... Read full article

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Little Nellie Kelly Quotes:

Nellie Kelly: There's nothing like a darn good cry, is there?
Michael 'Mike' Noonan: There's whiskey.
Michael 'Mike' Noonan: A clay pipe is a great blessing to a man. When you drop it you don't have pick it up.
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Little Nellie Kelly Facts
John Raitt's film debut.
This movie contains the only dying scene Judy Garland ever did onscreen.
Adapted from a musical play by George M. Cohan. The original stage production opened at the Liberty Theatre in New York on November 13, 1922 and ran for 248 performances. Most of the story was rewritten for the film, and only two of the songs from the play were used, "Nellie is a Darling" and "Nellie Kelly I Love You".
Frederick Worlock is credited in studio records for the role of "Lord Cavelstoke." Although the character is mentioned in the movie, he never is seen onscreen.
This movie has Judy Garland performing "Singin' in the Rain" more than 10 years before Gene Kelly most famously sang it in Singin' in the Rain. The song was first heard on screen in The Hollywood Revue of 1929.
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