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The Gang's All Here Overview:

The Gang's All Here (1943) was a Comedy - Musical Film directed by Busby Berkeley and produced by William LeBaron and William Goetz.

The Gang's All Here was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2014.

Academy Awards 1943 --- Ceremony Number 16 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Art DirectionArt Direction: James Basevi, Joseph C. Wright; Interior Decoration: Thomas LittleNominated

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Peyton Potter: [inspecting lipstick on his handkerchief] Hmm... ketchup?
Mrs. Peyton Potter: No doubt. And from a Brazilian tomato.

Edie Allen: Hear the orchestra?
Andy Mason: Yeah, where's it coming from?
Edie Allen: Where's your imagination?

Peyton Potter: I am a businessman. I go in for no foolishness. I'm entirely business.

Dorita: [singing] Some people say I dress too gay, but every day I feel so gay, and when I'm gay I dress that way, is something wrong with that? Noooo!

Mrs. Peyton Potter: [after meeting Dorita] That hat! I'd better watch my lampshades and bell-cords!
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On loan from MGM, Busby Berkeley, directing and choreographing this Twentieth Century-Fox musical, was given his first opportunity to work using perfected, three-strip Technicolor. Thirteen years before, Mr. Berkeley had choreographed for producer Samuel Goldwyn the Eddie Cantor frolic, Whoopee!, shot in early Technicolor.

The songs for this film were originally written for the eventually abandoned MGM picture "Babes in Hollywood".

Linda Darnell was originally cast in the role of "Vivian." But her marriage to the much-older cinematographer J. Peverell Marley ran her afoul of studio head Darryl F. Zanuck, and she was put on suspension. Sheila Ryan replaced her in the role.

In a deleted scene (included on the DVD), Phillip Baker hosts a segment of his then-popular radio quiz show, "The $64 Question," with a young G.I. as a contestant.

Director Busby Berkeley was free to do this film because Judy Garland had him fired from Girl Crazy after he shot the film's ending number, "I Got Rhythm." Norman Taurog took over the direction of "Girl Crazy" and, rather than pay him his contract salary for not working, MGM loaned Berkeley to 20th Century-Fox for this film.

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