Hit the Deck

The first number in the MGM/Joe Pasternak version of the Vincent Youmans, Clifford Grey/Leo Robin Broadway musical, Arctic-stationed sailors Russ Tamblyn, Vic Damone and Tony Martin (starting left, center and right) scheming to make a birthday cake for their C-O, in Hit The Deck, 1955.

We’ve just met top-billed Jane Powell as San Franciscan Susan, sister of sailor Danny (Russ Tamblyn), who’s returned from his Arctic tour of duty with a present, song by Vincent Youmans, Leo Robin and Clifford Grey, in the MGM Pasternak-unit musical Hit The Deck, 1955.

Having secured shore leave in San Francisco, sailor Tony Martin drops in backstage and joins his longtime (irritated) gal Ginger (Ann Miller) for a tune by Vincent Youmans and Sidney Clare, a song actually not from the Broadway musical, in MGM producer Joe Pasternak’s Hit The Deck, 1955.

First scene and first song for Debbie Reynolds, tune by Vincent Youmans, Leo Robin and Clifford Grey, with sailor Danny (Russ Tamblyn) visiting rehearsal, concerned that his un-worldly sister (Jane Powell, not seen here) is expecting to audition, in MGM’s Hit The Deck, 1955.

Sailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business in Hit the Deck (1955), starring Jane Powell and Tony Martin.