Here Come the Girls
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Claude Binyon
Bob Hope
Tony Martin
Arlene Dahl
Rosemary Clooney
Millard Mitchell
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In 1900, bumbling chorus boy Stanley Snodgrass gets himself fired from the cast of the Jersey City revue Here Come the Girls after he accidentally causes stars Irene Bailey and Allen Trent to fall off a chair during a performance. The show's producer, Harry Fraser, dismisses Stanley despite the pleas of co-star Daisy Crockett, who is in love with Stanley. Moments after Daisy and Stanley leave the theater, Irene receives a note attached to a flower arrangement that reads: "For your lover's funeral. If I can't have you, no one can." Meanwhile, the note's author, Jack the Slasher, slips into Allen's dressing room and stabs the entertainer with a knife. Jack flees as Irene and Harry break into the room, and though Allen's wound is not serious, he cannot go on in the show. Daisy, meanwhile, cheers Stanley up as they head for home on a steamboat, convincing him that he could be a star if he worked harder. Stanley, who still lives with his parents, then lies to his mother Emily and stepfather Albert about his position in the show, but is exposed when Harry's messenger arrives to reclaim his costume. Furious, Albert, who operates a coal delivery business, announces that after nineteen years, he is through bankrolling Stanley's show business career and demands that he get a real job. The next day, at the police station, Irene identifies Jack as Allen's attacker, revealing that she once smiled at him, unaware that he was wanted for several brutal murders. When police detective Dennis Logan suggests using Allen to trap the insanely jealous Jack, Allen balks. Harry then gets the idea to replace Allen in the revue with Stanley and have Irene romance him in public until the police catch Jack. To Albert's shock, Harry and Irene offer Stanley $100 a week and a room at the Waldorf-Astoria to star in the show. Although Stanley's starring debut is a laughable flop, Irene and Harry lavish him with praise, and Irene invites him to Delmonico's restaurant in Manhattan. The amorous Stanley brushes Daisy off and accepts, but on the way there, insists on going to the hotel, where he and Irene have adjoining suites. After Stanley dismisses Logan, who is posing as his valet, Irene panics and telephones Harry, demanding that he rescue her. While Irene is changing clothes in her suite, Jack suddenly appears and threatens to hurt her unless she ends her affair with Stanley. Jack flees before Logan can catch him, and oblivious, Stanley continues to romance Irene zealously until Harry arrives with some brandy. Eager to impress Irene, Stanley downs a snifter of brandy, and soon is quite drunk. The next morning, Jack, posing as the hotel barber, is about to cut hungover Stanley's throat when Logan sneaks up and knocks him out. With Jack in custody, Harry immediately fires Stanley, who then is forced to go to work for Albert, delivering coal. Soon, however, Logan learns that Jack has escaped, and notifies Harry. Moments after Stanley inadvertently drops a load of coal into a clothes chute at a laundry, Harry and Irene show up and reinstate him in the revue. Daisy, meanwhile, is told by some chorus girls that Irene is using Stanley to make Allen jealous and storms into the star's dressing room to confront her. Irene assumes that Daisy knows about Jack and reveals Logan's trap, but when Daisy tries to warn Stanley, he accuses her of being jealous. Stanley then goes on stage for an "Ali Baba" number, and while he is muffing his lines and stumbling around the set, Jack throws knives at him from the balcony. Once again, Jack slips away before Logan and his men can catch him, and Allen replaces the terrified Stanley. Logan, however, insists that Stanley go back on, and in desperation, Harry agrees to keep Stanley in the show for the run's duration if he returns to the stage. Ignoring Daisy's pleas, Stanley resumes his performance, while Jack grabs a knife off the prop table, knocks out one of the show's clowns, dons his costume and enters the stage. After a chase through the audience, Jack finally stabs Stanley on the trapeze, then is arrested. After getting him to admit that he loves her, Daisy then reveals to the gasping Stanley that Jack's knife was a harmless prop. One night, two years later, Stanley, who has married Daisy, attempts to make his entrance in the still-running Here Come the Girls . As has happened at every previous show, however, Stanley is waylaid in the wings by the resourceful Harry, who scoops him up with a giant hook.
Director
Claude Binyon
Cast
Bob Hope
Tony Martin
Arlene Dahl
Rosemary Clooney
Millard Mitchell
William Demarest
Fred Clark
Robert Strauss
Zamah Cunningham
Frank Orth
The Four Step Brothers
Hugh Sanders
Inesita
Vivian Mason
Virginia Leith
Phyllis Coates
Jane Easton
Alex Jackson
Russ Saunders
Pepito Perez
Richard Henry Lewis
Fred Sweeney
Pat Moran
Billy Curtis
Archie Brandon
Carl Wuebkes
Arthur Larue
Bobby Kay
Loren B. Brown
Jack Smith Jackson
Joan Whitney
Johnny Downs
Charley Cooley
The Mar-vels
Walter Gross
John Marlin
Steve Calvert
Dollye Katrine Green
Linda Couch Matchineff
Elaine Miller
Dolores Selin
Janice Voise
Maryanne Lamm
Jeralyn Kay
Miriam J. Wilson
Geraldine Lybarger
Joan A. Lewis
Emory Parnell
Clancy Cooper
Theresa Harris
Paul Harvey
Jimmy Hunt
Jesslyn Fax
Fay Holderness
Nancy Kulp
Greta Grandstedt
Anthony Warde
Mike Ross
Cliff Clark
Harry Cording
Mike Mahoney
Eve Whitney
Lois Hall
Jack Chefe
Jerry James
John Indrisano
Jim Davies
Pat Lane
Bill Meader
Dale Van Sickel
Patrick Holmes
Bert Henderson
Hazel "sunny" Boyne
Jack Roberts
Jack Stoney
Crew
Holger Abro
Roland Anderson
Audrey Briar
Henry E. Brill
Loren B. Brown
Dick Caffey
Nick Castle
Sam Comer
John Cope
Everett Coreill
George Erlinger
Ray Evans
Grace Gregory
Hugo Grenzbach
Edmund Hartmann
Edmund Hartmann
Edith Head
Len Hendry
Dolores Hoff
Gordon Jennings
Paul Jones
Hal Kanter
Paul Lerpae
Lionel Lindon
Jay Livingston
Charles Morton
Richard Mueller
Lyn Murray
Hal Pereira
Edward Salven
Arthur Schmidt
Van Cleave
Wally Westmore
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Notes
The working titles of this film were Girls Are Here to Stay and Champagne for Everybody. Onscreen credits for the four above-title actors include photographs of the performers in costume. Opening credits conclude with the following written statement: "In the year 1900, there lived a chorus boy named Stanley Snodgrass, who worked his way up from the gutter-only to discover that he had a round trip ticket." According to a January 1952 Variety news item, Martin Rackin was hired to co-write the script with story author Edmund Hartmann. Only Hal Kanter receives onscreen credit with Hartmann, however; Rackin's contribution to the completed film, if any, has not been determined. A February 1952 Hollywood Reporter item announced that director Claude Binyon would also work on the screenplay, but his contribution to the script has not been determined.
According to an October 1952 Hollywood Reporter news item, Millard Mitchell replaced James Barton in the role of "Albert Snodgrass" after Barton fell "seriously ill." Although Barton did not die until 1962, his last completed film was the 1952 Twentieth Century-Fox release Golden Girl . Mitchell made his last screen appearance in Here Come the Girls; he died in October 1953, two months before the picture's release. According to Paramount production notes, contained in the file on the film in the AMPAS Library, guitarists Vido Momolo, Nestor, Joe Carioca and Vince Terri worked for two days pre-recording offbeat gypsy music for the picture. Elaine Riley and Artie McEnery are listed as cast members in Hollywood Reporter news items, but their appearance in the final film has not been confirmed. Sources conflict about the film's running time. Copyright records list the running time as 100 minutes, or 12 reels, while the Hollywood Reporter review gives the length as 86 minutes and other reviews list it as 77 to 78 minutes. The viewed print ran approximately 77 minutes.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States February 24, 1993
Released in United States on Video February 24, 1993
c Technicolor
Released in United States February 24, 1993
Released in United States on Video February 24, 1993
