In the Good Old Summertime (1949) |
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In the Good Old Summertime Cast |
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Judy Garland
(as Veronica Fisher)
with Van Johnson
(as Andrew Delby Larkin)
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Other InformationAwardsBest Written American Musical Writers Guild of America, USA [1950] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Plot SummaryIn the Good Old Summertime is a musical remake of the 1940 Ernst Lubitsch comedy The Shop Around the Corner, which in turn was based on a play by Miklos Laszlo. The locale has been changed from Hungary to Chicago, but the turn-of-century time frame a... Related MoviesYou`ve Got Mail [Version of] (Year of movie: 1998) The Shop Around the Corner [Version of] (Year of movie: 1940) DiscographySinglesJingle Bells Vienna Blood Symphony No. 5, 1st Movement Beautiful Dreamer Gavotte Listen to the Mockingbird Chicago (That Toddlin` Town) Souvenir de Moscou Merry Christmas I Don`t Care Play That Barbershop Chord Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie Put Your Arms Around Me Honey Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland In the Good Old Summertime |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Andrew Delby Larkin: [of his sister`s children] One of them`s named for me.
Veronica Fisher: Which one?
Andrew Delby Larkin: [slightly confused] Andrew. Veronica Fisher: I wish you could read his letters. Then you could see he has such a lofty point of view. And now to find out he`s so materialistic.
Andrew Delby Larkin: I`m sorry. I hate to think I`ve spoiled your Christmas.
Veronica Fisher: Oh, no, you haven`t. I supposed I really should be thanking you.
Andrew Delby Larkin: You don`t have to do that, but you know what I wish you would do. I wish you would send this Newspickle about his business and concentrate on me instead.
Veronica Fisher: I can`t, you already have someone.
Andrew Delby Larkin: Oh, no, not yet.
Veronica Fisher: [stammering] Mr. Larkin...
Andrew Delby Larkin: Oh, Veronica, I love you so! Won`t you open box 237 and take me out of my envelope?
Veronica Fisher: Box 23... box 237! You mean... You?
Andrew Delby Larkin: Yes, Dear Friend. Are you disappointed?
Veronica Fisher: Psychologically, I`m very confused, but personally I feel just wonderful.
Veronica Fisher: Mr. Larkin, what about his mind? Did you find him intellegent, witty...
Andrew Delby Larkin: Witty? No, no, not witty, but then you can`t judge a man when he`s out of a job.
Veronica Fisher: Out of a job!
Andrew Delby Larkin: Well, yes.
Veronica Fisher: He never said anything to me about that.
Andrew Delby Larkin: Well he probably didn`t want to worry you. But he thinks you can both live quite comfortably on what you make.
Veronica Fisher: [horrified] Did he ask you what I make?
Andrew Delby Larkin: Well, after all, he is your fiance. Veronica Fisher: Did you find him attractive?
Andrew Delby Larkin: Yes, I thought so. But don`t you go changing him. Don`t put him on any diets.
Veronica Fisher: Would you say he was fat?
Andrew Delby Larkin: Personally I like that little tummy of his. Gives him a nice homey look. And as for his being bald...
Veronica Fisher: Bald!
Veronica Fisher: I don`t think anyone would notice. The way he lets those few hairs in the back grow long and combs them up over his head, coming down behind his ears. It`s ingenius really. And after all, that`s what you want in a husband isn`t it?
Veronica Fisher: [in a daze] Yes, that`s what I want. Veronica Fisher: You`re not the only one who`s getting engaged. I mean, he hasn`t asked me yet. And he might not, but then again...
Andrew Delby Larkin: He might. Well as a matter of fact, I happen to know it will happen.
Veronica Fisher: What do you mean you know it will happen?
Andrew Delby Larkin: I might as well tell you, he came to see me the other day.
Veronica Fisher: Who?
Andrew Delby Larkin: Your fiance. I had a pretty tough time with him too. You know he just didn`t believe you when you wrote and told him I meant nothing to you.
Veronica Fisher: I just can`t rap my head around this. He came to see you?
Andrew Delby Larkin: See me, yeah. Oh, but don`t worry, I straightened everything out. In a little while, you`ll be Mrs. Newspickle.
Veronica Fisher: Newspickle!
Andrew Delby Larkin: Well, yes, that`s his name isn`t it. I mean that`s what he told me. [last lines]
Veronica Fisher: Psychologically, I`m very confused, but personally I feel just wonderful.Trivia The deleted song "Last Night When We Were Young" (music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by E.Y. Harburg), sung by a heartbroken Judy Garland in her bedroom, already had been cut from an earlier picture: Metropolitan (1935), vocalized by `Lawrence Tibbett (I)`, who also made a commercial recording for Victor. Miss Garland, after discovering the Tibbett record, considered this impassioned lament her favorite song. Judy`s prerecording was issued on several albums by MGM Records over two decades, beginning in 1951 with the 10-inch LP "Judy Garland Sings." On CD, the audio is featured on the Rhino Handmade release of the soundtrack, which is paired with the score of Miss Garland`s Summer Stock (1950). Footage of Judy`s remorseful ballad can be viewed on a bonus disc in the DVD box set, "That`s Entertainment! The Complete Collection," from Warner Home Video. On three notable occasions, Miss Garland returned to "Last Night When We Were Young": together with acclaimed jazz pianist Joe Bushkin on her half-hour CBS-TV special (with Nelson Riddle serving as the arranger and conductor), broadcast the evening of October 8, 1956 on "General Electric Theater" (1953); for her best-selling Capitol album, released in October 1956, simply entitled "Judy," arranged and conducted by Mr. Riddle, the LP updated to a Collectables CD which also contains Garland`s 1955 Capitol album, "Miss Show Business"; and for the February 23, 1964 telecast of her CBS series, "The Judy Garland Show" (1963). In the scene where Judy and Van meet in the restaurant, the woman sitting directly behind Judy is wearing the exact same green and plaid outfit that Cyd Charisse wore in "The Harvey Girls" three years earlier. In 1946, Gene Kelly was scheduled to play Andy. As late as 1948, Peter Lawford and June Allyson were announced as the stars. At one time set to co-star Frank Sinatra and Gloria DeHaven. Buster Keaton was working as a gag writer at MGM when this movie was made. The filmmakers approached him to devise a way for a violin to get broken that would be both comic and plausible. Keaton came up with an appropriate fall, and the filmmakers then realized he was the only one who would be able to execute it properly, so they cast him in the film. Keaton also devised the sequence in which Van Johnson inadvertently wrecks Judy Garland`s hat, and coached Johnson intensively in how to perform the scene. This was the first MGM film Keaton appeared in since being fired from the studio in 1933. June Allyson and Frank Sinatra were originally supposed to play the leads, but Sinatra was unavailable and Allyson dropped out when she became pregnant. The film`s original title was supposed to be "The Girl From Chicago". Liza Minnelli appears in the final scene. She`s the little girl with Van Johnson and her mother, Judy Garland. | ||
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