Girl Crazy
Screening on Film
Directed by Norman Taurog and Busby Berkeley.
With Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, June Allyson.
SU, 1943, 35mm, black & white, 99 min.
With Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, June Allyson.
SU, 1943, 35mm, black & white, 99 min.
A playboy is sent off to an all-male Western mining college to clean up his act. His eye is quickly caught by the daughter of the school’s dean, who is training to win the title of Rodeo Queen. Less formulaic than the “put on a show” films which preceded it, the film marked one of the more endearing collaborations between Rooney and Garland. Berkeley’s only contribution was the colossal finale set to the strains of Gershwin’s “I Got Rhythm.”
