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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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The Gang's All Here Quotes:

Mrs. Peyton Potter: Well old swoopy, swapping swoops at your age what have you got to say about that?
Peyton Potter: I told you darling we were simply discussing investments.
Edie Allen: [singing] Oh, the polka dance, the polka dance, the polka dance is gone/But the polka dot, the polka dot, the polka dot lives on.
Edie Allen: Hear the orchestra?
Andy Mason: Yeah, where's it coming from?
Edie Allen: Where's your imagination?
Mrs. Peyton Potter: [after meeting Dorita] That hat! I'd better watch my lampshades and bell-cords!
Dorita: You are here to kick up some more heels, huh?
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The Gang's All Here Facts
The production number "The Lady In The Tutti-Frutti Hat" ran into problems with the censors. The Hayes office at first considered the way the gigantic bananas were held in front of the dancers as being too "phallic". The problem was resolved by having the dancers hold the bananas at waist level rather than at hip level.
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.
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.
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