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Best Foot Forward (1943)
Directed by Edward Buzzell
“Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Honey of a Musical”
Comedy, Music · 1h 35m
Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend Helen Schlesinger unexpectedly shows up, too.
Cast
Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball
William Gaxton
Jack O'Riley
Virginia Weidler
Helen Schlesinger
T
Tommy Dix
Elwood C. "Bud" Hooper
Nancy Walker
Nancy - Blind Date
June Allyson
Ethel
Kenny Bowers
Dutch Miller
Gloria DeHaven
Minerva Fierce
J
Jack Jordan
Harvey "Hunk" Hoyt
Chill Wills
Chester Short
Henry O'Neill
Maj. Roger W. Reeber
Sara Haden
Miss Talbert
Crew
- Director
- Edward Buzzell
- Screenplay
- Irving Brecher, Fred F. Finklehoffe
- Novel
- John Cecil Holm
- Director of Photography
- Leonard Smith
- Original Music Composer
- Lennie Hayton
- Editor
- Blanche Sewell
- Producer
- Arthur Freed
Details
- Release date
- 1943-10-08
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Genres
- Comedy, Music
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Budget
- $1,162,000
- Box office
- $2,704,000