Words and Music (1948 film)

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Cast

• Tom Drake
  Tom Drake
  
  Tom Drake , born Alfred Sinclair Alderdice in Brooklyn, New York, was an United States actor. Drake made films starting in 1940 and continuing until the mid-1970s, and also made TV acting appearances....
   as Richard Rodgers
• Mickey Rooney
  Mickey Rooney
  
  Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
   as Lorenz Hart
• Janet Leigh
  Janet Leigh
  
  Janet Leigh was an American actress.Discovered by the actress Norma Shearer, Leigh secured a contract with MGM and began her film career in the late 1940s....
   as Dorothy Feiner Rodgers
• Marshall Thompson
  Marshall Thompson
  
  James Marshall Thompson was an United States film and television actor. He was born in Peoria, Illinois, Illinois. In 1943, Thompson, known for his boy-next-door good looks was signed by Universal Pictures....
   as Herbert Fields
• Betty Garrett
  Betty Garrett
  
  Betty Garrett is an United States actor, comedian and dancer who belonged to the golden era of the movie musical. However, she is probably best known for a pair of roles in two prominent 1970s sitcoms: Archie Bunker's liberal next-door neighbor, Irene Lorenzo, in All in the Family and landlady Edna Babish in Laverne and Shirley....
   as Peggy Lorgan McNeil
• Jeanette Nolan
  Jeanette Nolan
  
  Jeanette Nolan was an American actress, born in Los Angeles, California.Miss Nolan was a graduate of Abraham Lincoln High School in Los Angeles....
   as Mrs. Hart
• Ann Sothern
  Ann Sothern
  
  Ann Sothern was an Academy Award-nominated United States actor with a career spanning six decades....
   as Joyce Harmon
• Perry Como
  Perry Como
  
  Pierino "Perry" Como was an United States singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with it in 1943....
   as Eddie Lorrison Anders
• Cyd Charisse
  Cyd Charisse
  
  Cyd Charisse was an American dancer and actress.After recovering from polio as a child, and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the 1940s....
   as Margo Grant
• Richard Quine
  Richard Quine
  
  Richard Quine was an United States stage, film, and radio actor and film director.Quine was born in Detroit, Michigan. He began his acting career at age eleven on Broadway theatre, and appeared in his first film John Ford's The World Moves On ....
   as Ben Feiner Jr.

• June Allyson performed "Thou Swell
  Thou Swell
  
  "Thou Swell" is a show tune, a popular music song and a jazz standard.The music was written by Richard Rodgers, with words by Lorenz Hart, for the 1927 musical A Connecticut Yankee ....
  ."
• Judy Garland
  Judy Garland
  
  Judy Garland was an American actress and alto singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage....
   performed "Johnny One Note
  Johnny One Note
  
  "Johnny One Note" is a 1937 show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes in Arms, where it was introduced by Wynn Murrary. Judy Garland sang it in the Babes in Arms , released in 1939....
  " and "I Wish I Were in Love Again
  I Wish I Were in Love Again
  
  "I Wish I Were in Love Again" is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes in Arms. Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney performed it in the 1948 film Words and Music ....
  ."
• Lena Horne
  Lena Horne
  
  Lena Mary Calhoun Horne is an American singer and actress. She has recorded and performed extensively, independently and with other jazz notables, including Artie Shaw, Teddy Wilson, Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, Charlie Barnet, Benny Carter, and Billy Eckstine....
   performed "The Lady Is a Tramp
  The Lady Is a Tramp
  
  "The Lady Is a Tramp" is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes In Arms. This song is a sophisticated and witty spoof of New York high society and its strict etiquette ....
  " and "Where or When
  Where or When
  
  "Where or When" is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical theatre Babes In Arms. It was first performed by Ray Heatherton and Mitzi Green....
  ."
• Gene Kelly
  Gene Kelly
  
  Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly was an United States dancer, actor, singer, film director, Film producer, and choreographer.A major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, Kelly was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen....
   danced "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
  Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
  
  Slaughter on Tenth Avenue is a ballet with music by Richard Rodgers and choreography by George Balanchine. It occurs near the end of Rodgers and Hart's 1936 Broadway theatre musical comedy On Your Toes....
  ."
• Mel Tormé
  Mel Tormé
  
  Melvin Howard Torm? , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known as one of the great jazz singers. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books....
   performed "Blue Moon
  Blue moon
  
  A blue moon is a full moon that is irregularly timed according to some calendars. Most years have twelve full moons which occur approximately monthly, but each calendar year contains those twelve full lunar cycles and an excess of roughly eleven days....
  ."
• Vera-Ellen
  Vera-Ellen
  
  Vera-Ellen was an American actress and dancer, principally celebrated for her filmed dance partnerships with Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor....
   danced "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
  Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
  
  Slaughter on Tenth Avenue is a ballet with music by Richard Rodgers and choreography by George Balanchine. It occurs near the end of Rodgers and Hart's 1936 Broadway theatre musical comedy On Your Toes....
  ."

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