Anchors Aweigh

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces Anchors Aweigh, 1945.

Tiffany Vazquez introduced Anchors Aweigh, 1945.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Anchors Aweigh, 1945.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Anchors Aweigh, 1945.

Robert Osborne introduces Anchors Aweigh, 1945.

Kathryn Grayson as Susan, widowed de-facto mother of her nephew, who hasn’t sung a note thus far, is eager to thank her new on-leave Navy pals Joe and Clarence (Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra), at an L-A Mexican club, the famous song by the Danish composer Jacob Gade, English lyric by Patience Strong, in Anchors Aweigh, 1945.

On shore-leave in L-A sailors Joe and Clarence (Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra) have agreed to put their new pal Donald (Dean Stockwell) to bed, Frank supplying Brahms’ Lullaby, then hoping to apply Gene’s promised romantic advice to his guardian-aunt Susan (Kathryn Grayson), in MGM’s Anchors Aweigh, 1945.

Brady and Doolittle (lifelong pals Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra, in their first movie together), just decorated and granted leave from their ship in Los Angeles, launching their first Sammy Cahn-Jule Styne number, in MGM's Anchors Aweigh, 1945.

Returning to sailors' lodgings after their first night on leave, Doolittle (Frank Sinatra) forgetting to brag, Brady (Gene Kelly) correcting, into their Sammy Cahn-Jule Styne number, staged by Kelly and Jack Donohue, in Anchors Aweigh, 1945.

A pair of sailors on leave try to help a movie extra become a singing star in Anchors Aweigh (1945) starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson.