Good News

Good News (1947)

M-G-M's terrific technicolor musical!

At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat McClellan. Tommy's grades start to slip, which keeps him from playing in the big game. Connie eventually finds out Tommy really loves her and devises a plan to win him back and to get him back on the field.

Date of release
1947-12-04
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (28)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Music, Comedy, Romance
Director
Charles Walters

Casting

Interesting facts

Good News is a 1947 American Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical film based on the 1927 stage production of the same name. It starred June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Mel Tormé, and Joan McCracken. The screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green was directed by Charles Walters in Technicolor.

Production

The film was originally planned for Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland as a follow-up to their success in 1939's "Babes in Arms".

Good News and Summer Stock were also originally planned to become part of the backyard musical series. Summer Stock was released three years later.

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