Bring on the Girls (film)

Bring on the Girls is a 1945 American musical comedy film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Eddie Bracken, Sonny Tufts and Veronica Lake.^[1][2] It is loosely based on the 1940 French comedy The Man Who Seeks the Truth.

Bring on the Girls
Directed by	Sidney Lanfield
Screenplay by	Karl Tunberg Darrell Ware
Based on	The Man Who Seeks the Truth 1941 film by Pierre Wolff
Produced by	associate Fred Kohlmar
Starring	Veronica Lake Sonny Tufts Eddie Bracken Marjorie Reynolds
Cinematography	Karl Struss
Edited by	William Shea
Music by	Robert Emmett Dolan
Production company	Paramount Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	March 30, 1945 (1945-03-30)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Plot

Wealthy Jay Newport Bates breaks off an engagement after discovering his fiancée is a gold digger. He joins the Navy anonymously but his family insist he be chaperoned by Phil North.

While on leave in Miami, Jay meets cigarette girl Teddy Collins, who once was engaged to Phil. When Teddy learns Jay is rich she flirts with him and he falls for her. Phil thinks Jay's new girl is Sue Thomas, a singer at the club.

Cast

• Veronica Lake as Teddy Collins
• Sonny Tufts as Phil North
• Eddie Bracken as J. Newport Bates
• Marjorie Reynolds as Sue Thomas
• Johnny Coy as Benny Lowe
• Peter Whitney as Swede
• Alan Mowbray as August
• Grant Mitchell as Uncle Ralph
• Porter Hall as Dr. Efrington
• Thurston Hall as Rutledge
• Lloyd Corrigan as Beaster
• Sig Arno as Joseph
• June Foray as The Voice Of Parrot
• Huntz Hall as sailor
• Yvonne De Carlo as Hatcheck Girl

Production

The film was from the writers of the Bing Crosby musical Dixie. It marked Veronica Lake's return to the screen after an absence of several months, during which she had lost a child and been divorced. It was her first proper musical, although she had sung in This Gun for Hire and Star Spangled Rhythm.

Her original co-stars were to be Eddie Bracken and Dick Powell.^[3] Eventually Powell was replaced by Sonny Tufts.^[4]

Filming started in January 1944.

According to Diabolique magazine "After the debacle of The Hour Before Dawn and the traumas of her private life, Lake was carefully protected in this film – not given too much action, not having to carry the bulk of the plot, being cast in a role which is the variation of the one she played in I Wanted Wings – to wit, a gold-digging night club girl (though Lake doesn’t sing)."^[5]

Songs

• Egyptian Ella

References

1. Lenburg, Jeff (August 2001). Peekaboo: The Story of Veronica Lake. ISBN 9780595192397.
2. BOSLEY CROWTHER (Mar 1, 1945). "THE SCREEN IN REVIEW: At the Paramount At the Fifty-fifth Street A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Film Version of Betty Smith's Novel, With a Uniformly Fine Cast, Opens at the Roxy". The New York Times. p. 25.
3. Schallert, Edwin (Oct 8, 1943). "DRAMA AND FILM: Light Musical Named for Veronica's Return Niven Busch's Forthcoming Novel, Duel in the Sun, May Be Filmed by Wood". Los Angeles Times. p. 15.
4. "SCREEN NEWS HERE AND IN HOLLYWOOD: Sonny Tufts Named Co-Star of Bring On the Girls -- 'Battle of Russia' Leaves Tuesday". The New York Times. Nov 20, 1943. p. 8.
5. Vagg, Stephen (11 February 2020). "The Cinema of Veronica Lake". Diabolique Magazine.

External links

• Bring on the Girls at IMDb
• Bring on the Girls at the TCM Movie Database
• Bring on the Girls at AllMovie
• Bring on the Girls at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
• Review of film at The New York Times
• Review of film at Variety