Up in Arms

Up in Arms (1944)

SHOW OF SHOWS...AND YOUR ENTERTAINMENT DELIGHT OF ALL TIME!

Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.

Date of release
1944-02-17
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 45m
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Director
Elliott Nugent

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

Up in Arms is a 1944 musical film directed by Elliott Nugent and starring Danny Kaye and Dinah Shore. It was nominated for two Academy Awards in 1945.

Production notes

Production dates: late June–late September 1943

The working title of this film was With Flying Colors.

All of the actresses who played nurses in Up in Arms are listed collectively onscreen as "The Goldwyn Girls."

Danny Kaye's character was based on the character "The Nervous Wreck" from the play of the same name by Owen Davis, which opened in New York in 1923. The play, which bears little resemblance to the film, was in turn based on the 1921 magazine serial The Wreck by Edith J. Rath and Sam H. Harris, which was published as a novel called The Nervous Wreck in 1923.

Up in Arms marked the motion picture feature debut of Broadway star Danny Kaye (1911–1987), and opened to uniformly rave reviews. The popular star, who began on Broadway in 1939, had already turned down a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer when he was cast in Up in Arms.

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