It's a Great Feeling

It's a Great Feeling (1949)

Guest stars galore!

A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.

Date of release
1949-08-20
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (37)
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Comedy, Music
Director
David Butler

Casting

Interesting facts

It's a Great Feeling is a 1949 American Technicolor musical comedy film directed by David Butler and starring Dennis Morgan, Doris Day, and Jack Carson in a parody of what goes on behind the scenes in Hollywood filmmaking. The screenplay by Jack Rose and Mel Shavelson was based on a story by I. A. L. Diamond. The film was produced by Alex Gottlieb and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

Production

The film's working title was Two Guys and a Gal. The film resembled Day's early career as a waitress struggling to get into the pictures and nearly landing her big break when prepared to leave Hollywood. It's a Great Feeling was Day's third film and third-to-last collaboration with Carson. On working with him, Day wrote in her autobiography:

He helped me enormously with my technical indoctrination into movie acting. He taught me dozens of tricks about how to move to precise camera marks without actually looking for them, how to handle myself in close-ups so that my face or profile rather than the back of my head would be in a shot, how to sustain the evenness of a performed scene. ...

In June 1948, Day's participation in the film was confirmed. By that time, Carson and Morgan were already cast. The film also went under the title Two Guys of the Nineties and, due to insistence of Carson and Morgan as Two Guys from Hollywood (though Morgan had previously stated in an interview that he would never star in another film with "Two Guys" in the title).

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