Who starred with Judy Garland in the 1946 film “The Harvey Girls”?
The Harvey Girls (vhs): Amazon.com video review: Sometimes lively, sometimes pokey, this Technicolor MGM musical inspires mixed feelings in aficionados of the form–except on one point. No viewer will question why “On the Atchison, Topeka, & the Santa Fe” won the best song Oscar for 1946. This is a brilliant, inventive song given an epic staging. Director George Sidney pulls out all the stops for this wowser–even Marjorie Main sings, an eardrum-testing sound. The real-life Harvey Girls were waitresses imported to the far-flung Fred Harvey Hotels, civilizing oases along the railroad lines out west. The fictional Harvey Girls is set in Sandrock, where the traveling waitresses are joined by a sort of mail-order bride (Judy Garland) whose prospective husband is a bust–he’s a roughhewn rancher played by Chill Wills. Garland is in fine spunky form; unfortunately, her romance is with John Hodiak (as the owner of a dance hall), that uninspiring
The 1946 movie “The Harvey Girls” starred Judy Garland, Angela Lansbury, Ray Bolger, Cyd Charisse, Edward Earle, Preston Foster and Sam Garrett. Sources: MoviesUnlimited.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Harvey_Girls_(film) The Harvey Girls he Harvey Girls is a 1946 MGM musical film based on a 1942 novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams about Fred Harvey’s famous Harvey House restaurants. Directed by George Sidney, the film stars Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Angela Lansbury, Virginia O’Brien, Ray Bolger, and Marjorie Main. It won an Academy Award for Best Song for “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe”, written by Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren. The film was a product of the Arthur Freed unit at MGM. . . . —— http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=777&category=Full%20Credits Full Credits for The Harvey Girls (1946) Director George Sidney Cast Judy Garland … Susan Bradley John Hodiak … Ned Trent Ray Bolger … Chris Maule Angela Lansbury … Em Preston Foster … Judge Sam Pur
