Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) | |
| Director(s) | David Butler |
| Producer(s) | Mark Hellinger, Jack L. Warner (executive) |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Musical |
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Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) was a Comedy - Musical Film directed by David Butler and produced by Jack L. Warner and Mark Hellinger.
Academy Awards 1943 --- Ceremony Number 16 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Music - Song | Music by Arthur Schwartz; Lyrics by Frank Loesser | Nominated |
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Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
By Beatrice on Oct 21, 2014 From Flickers in TimeThank Your Lucky Stars Directed by David Butler Written by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank and James V. Kern from an original story by Everett Freeman and Arthur Schwartz 1943/USA Warner Bros. First viewing/Warner Bros. Homefront Collection DVD Yet another all-star variety show from 1943. ?It’... Read full article
THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS for Memorial Day
By Aurora on May 25, 2014 From Once Upon a ScreenLighthearted fare from the Warner Bros. slate of classic stars is?my recommendation for this Memorial Day. ? Edward Everett Horton and S. Z. Sakall are producers Farnsworth and Dr. Schlenna (respectively) who are staging a show called “Cavalcade of Stars” in order to raise money for Alli... Read full article
Thank Your Lucky Stars – 1943
By Bogart Fan on Aug 10, 2013 From The Bogie Film BlogMy Review —Wonderful, Goofy Fun—? Your Bogie Film Fix: ?out of 5 Bogies! Director: ?David Butler The Lowdown Two Hollywood dreamers (Joan Leslie and Dennis Morgan) crash a war effort variety show in order to get their music heard. What I Thought Much like Hollywood Victory Caravan, this ... Read full article
Musical Mondays: “Thank Your Lucky Stars” (1943)
on Jul 1, 2013 From Comet Over HollywoodIt?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, I?m starting a weekly feature about musicals. This week?s musical: Thank Your Lucky Stars?... Read full article
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Quotes from
Nurse Hamilton: [regarding Cantor] According to his pulse, he's been dead for 43 weeks.
Dr. Kirby: Ah, my favorite scalpel. Who's the patient?
Nurse Hamilton: Eddie Cantor.
Dr. Kirby: Ha-ha-ha-ha! Start the anesthetic.
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In the scene where Conrad Wiedell takes Bette Davis and does a "Jitterbug" dance, she felt he was holding back in rehearsals, and told him to treat her like an experienced dance partner. When the cameras rolled, Wiedell - a national jitterbug champion hired specifically for this dance - pulled out all the stops and swung her around and she fell on her knee. As she finishes her song, you see her limping out of the nightclub set and leaning against a post, rubbing her knee. This was a real injury, but she finished the song despite the pain. When director David Butler asked Davis to "try it once more", she replied, "No! No! I said one take, and that was it." She then turned to the press who had shown up to watch her number, telling them "Show's over, gentlemen. Now get the hell out."
Eddie Cantor, as Joe the bus driver, tells Joan Leslie that he and his friends all live together in a place called "Gower Gulch". In reality "Gower Gulch" was the area near Gower St. and Hollywood Blvdn where many low-budget production companies and independent producers had their offices. It was so named because most of the films they made were westerns--which were cheaper to make than any other genre--and many cowboy actors and extras hung out in the area looking for work.
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