Meet the People

In the first induction of the title song by Jay Gorney and Henry Myers, songwriter "Swanee" (Dick Powell) dreams it up on the train from Delaware, but his working class vision is not what Broadway star Julie (Lucille Ball) is doing with it on stage, in MGM's Meet The People, 1944.

In the context of the dispute-cum-romance between Broadway star Julie (Lucille Ball) and shipyard worker-composer "Swanee" (Dick Powell), his tipsy colleague "The Commander" (Bert Lahr) offers this Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg primer on how to christen a boat, in MGM's Meet The People, 1944.

June Allyson is the fan-clubber meekly complaining to Vaughn Monroe that his band is drowning out the melody, so she joins him, Ziggie Talent and Virginia O'Brien in this Rodgers and Hart tune first introduced on Broadway in 1939, at a shipboard fund-raiser in MGM's Meet The People, 1944.

A fading stage star tries to revive her career by taking a job in a shipyard in Meet the People (1944) starring Lucille Ball.