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Follow the Boys (1944) was a Comedy - Drama Film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and John Rawlins and produced by Charles K. Feldman.

Academy Awards 1944 --- Ceremony Number 17 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Music - SongMusic by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Sammy CahnNominated
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Musical Monday: “Follow the Boys” (1963)

on Jun 23, 2014 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 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week?s musical: ?Follow The Boys? ?Musical #... Read full article


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Gloria Vance: You have no inhibitions, have you?
Tony West: I can't afford them.


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John Rawlins directed additional scenes after A. Edward Sutherland left the picture.
In the "Beyond the Blue Horizon" number (previously used in Monte Carlo) the lyric "rising sun" were chanced to "shining sun", to avoid any associations to the Japanese flag.
Orson Welles's then wife Rita Hayworth was scheduled to appear with him in the magic show sequence, but her iron-clad contract at Columbia Pictures prohibited her from being loaned out to a rival studio. Marlene Dietrich, then taking a brief break from entertaining the troops overseas, stepped in.
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