Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) on Netflix
Approved19432h 7mComedyMusical
Two producers need Dinah Shore for a charity revue. Eddie Cantor holds her contract and wants to chair the benefit. Joe Simpson, a bus driver who looks like Cantor, cannot get cast.
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Plot summary
The Cavalcade of Stars is a wartime charity revue that two theater producers are trying to assemble, and the singer Dinah Shore is on their wish list. She is under contract to radio star Eddie Cantor, who will let her perform only if he is given control of the benefit committee. In that post, his own ideas for the evening complicate the producers' work. Meanwhile, an aspiring singer named Tommy Randolph and his girlfriend, the songwriter Pat Dixon, look for a way into the program. They know Joe Simpson, a tour bus driver whose close resemblance to Cantor has kept him out of acting jobs.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
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- Thank Your Lucky Stars contains the only onscreen musical performances by Bette Davis, Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, who were among the Warner Bros. stars taking part in its musical numbers.
- Bette Davis's jitterbug partner, Conrad Wiedell, had really won a dance contest and was frightened of hurting her; she told him to forget who she was and let his instincts take over.
- Each member of the cast of Thank Your Lucky Stars was paid a $50,000 fee, and every one of those fees was donated to the Hollywood Canteen.
- Thank Your Lucky Stars was the film debut of both singer Dinah Shore and bandleader Spike Jones with his City Slickers.
- The finale was shot with much of the cast together on stage, but special effects place five acts, Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Bette Davis, the Jack Carson and Alan Hale Sr. duo, and the trio of Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino and George Tobias, over their glitter-covered stars.
- Olivia de Havilland said she added over-the-top gum chewing to her musical act so that the lip-synching would work.
- The production used sets that had already been built for two earlier Warner Bros. pictures, The Green Pastures and Wonder Bar.
