The Gang's All Here (1943) on Netflix
Sergeant Andy Mason, bound for active duty, meets dancer Eadie Allen at the Club New Yorker. She will not date servicemen outside the canteen, so he calls himself Sergeant Pat Casey.
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Plot summary
Wealthy businessman Andrew J. Mason Sr. celebrates at the Club New Yorker with his son Andy, a sergeant due to report for active duty, and his anxious business partner Peyton Potter. Potter fears his wife Blossom will find out he spent the evening there, and the club's Brazilian attraction Dorita pulls him onto the dance floor. Andy, meanwhile, becomes interested in the entertainer Eadie Allen, who also dances at the Broadway Canteen between her club sets. The master of ceremonies, Phil Baker, warns Andy that she will not go out with servicemen, so Andy follows her to the canteen and introduces himself as Sergeant Pat Casey, hiding his family's money. Eadie agrees to meet him later.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Gang's All Here (1943)
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- The sexual innuendo of Carmen Miranda's "The Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat", dozens of scantily clad women handling very large bananas, apparently kept the film off Brazilian screens on its first release, and in the US censors ordered the chorus girls to hold the bananas at the waist rather than the hip.
- Linda Darnell was originally scheduled to play Vivian Potter, which would have been her first dancing role in films, but she sprained her ankle during dance rehearsals, eloped with cinematographer Peverell Marley, and asked Twentieth Century-Fox for an indefinite leave; Sheila Ryan took the role instead.
- A parody of Phil Baker's radio show Take It or Leave It was planned for the film, but the sequence was cut, and Baker instead made an entire film based on the show, also called Take It or Leave It, for Twentieth Century-Fox.
- Darryl F. Zanuck was in Europe on behalf of the war effort, so producer William LeBaron oversaw the film; he and director Busby Berkeley got on at first, but Berkeley refused LeBaron's budget-trimming mandates, which the War Production Board's wartime cost-cutting demands had forced on him.
- The Gang's All Here was the first color film directed entirely by Busby Berkeley; he had earlier directed only dance numbers, for the 1930 two-color Technicolor film Whoopee!, and its extravagant production numbers were well received.
- Alice Faye was pregnant with her second child during filming, and this proved to be her last appearance in a musical film until State Fair in 1962; she then retired from the screen, making only the drama Fallen Angel (1945) in the intervening period.
