It Happened in Brooklyn

It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)

IT ALL TAKES PLACE IN THAT FASCINATING WONDERLAND OF THE FAR EAST...BROOKLYN!

Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. When he returns after the war, he soon finds that Brooklyn is not so nice after all. He is able to share a place with Nick, the janitor of his old High School, and get a job as a singer in a music store. He also meets Leo, a talented pianist and his teacher Anne, whose dream is to singing Opera. When Jamie arrives from England, Danny tries to show him the Brooklyn experience and help him compose modern swing music. Together, these four also try to help Leo get the Brooklyn Music scholarship.

Date of release
1947-03-13
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (21)
Runtime
1h 45m
Genres
Comedy, Music, Romance
Director
Richard Whorf

Casting

Interesting facts

It Happened in Brooklyn is a 1947 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Richard Whorf, starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford and Jimmy Durante, and featuring Gloria Grahame and Marcy McGuire. It was Sinatra's third film for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which had purchased his contract from RKO.

Production

The original director was supposed to be George Sidney, but he was replaced by Richard Whorf, who is probably best known for his television directing, particularly The Beverly Hillbillies, Gunsmoke and My Three Sons.

Filming was interrupted for approximately ten days when Durante had to finish filming on This Time for Keeps.

The piano solos for the film were performed by a teenaged André Previn, under the musical direction of Johnny Green. Sinatra's vocal arrangements were orchestrated by Axel Stordahl.

Kathryn Grayson is heard performing "The Bell Song" from the Leo Delibes opera Lakme, lip-synching to a pre-recorded audio track that was the product of much recording and editing time. Andre Previn later wrote: “The Bell Song is not easy; it spends a lot of time in the stratospheric heights of coloratura tessitura, and it was all a bit much for our heroine.

This was the only feature film appearance of child actor Bobby Long (the stage name of Bobby Earl Logsdon) who plays Johnny O'Brien and performs "I Believe" in a tap dancing and singing number. Long began performing at an early age, touring around the country after being discovered on the Major Bowes show. His only other documented appearance on film is in the 1942 Soundie Club Lollypop.

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