Babes in Arms

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Babes In Arms, 1939.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Babes In Arms, 1939.

Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland and Douglas MacPhail lead their determined band of teenage second generation vaudevillians in the not often heard title song from the original Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart musical, director Busby Berkeley letting fly, in MGM's Babes In Arms, 1939.

Advanced shooting by director Busby Berkeley and cameraman Ray June, Don and Molly (Douglas MacPhail, Betty Jaynes) rehearsing for the kids' musical, earning no praise from Mickey (Rooney) or Patsy (Judy Garland), with the Rodgers and Hart tune from the original show, in Babes In Arms, 1939.

Mickey Rooney (as "Mickey") and Judy Garland ("Patsy") make their first appearance introducing this famous tune by Nacio Herb Brown and the producer, Arthur Freed, written for this MGM update of the Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart musical Babes In Arms, 1939, directed by Busby Berkeley.

Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland imitate President and Mrs. Roosevelt in this segment removed from Babes In Arms (1939) after the President's death.

A group of second-generation entertainers put on a show to launch their careers in Babes in Arms (1939) with Judy Garland & Mickey Rooney.