Danny Churchill, Jr.
Search results
Girl Crazy is a 1930 musical by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book by Guy Bolton and John McGowan. Ethel Merman made her stage debut in the first production and co-lead Ginger Rogers became an overnight star.
Girl Crazy is a 1943 American musical film starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. Produced by the Freed Unit of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it is based on the stage musical Girl Crazy – which was written by Guy Bolton and Jack McGowan, with music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin.
With Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Gil Stratton, Robert E. Strickland. A philandering young playboy is sent to college somewhere in the American West, and organizes a show, together with his sweetheart, to save the college from closure due to falling enrollments.
- (2.3K)
- Comedy, Musical
- Norman Taurog, Busby Berkeley
- 1944-07-31
Girl Crazy is a 1943 American musical film starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. Produced by the Freed Unit of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it is based on the sta...
- 5 min
- 3.6K
- Ccvanl4
Distracted by female students and performing poorly in the classroom, Danny Churchill Jr. (Mickey Rooney) moves west to a university that his father...
- (6)
- Musical, Comedy
- Norman Taurog, Busby Berkeley
Girl Crazy is the pre-Golden Age musical that inspired Crazy for You. Filled with the beloved songs of George and Ira Gershwin, Girl Crazy is a charming romantic musical comedy that will have audiences dancing in their seats.
Girl Crazy casts Rooney as an irresponsible young playboy who's sent to a Western mining school where Garland, as the dean's daughter, helps straighten him out. Together they save the financially strapped college by staging a rodeo/beauty contest/musical extravaganza.
