Pal Joey (1957) |
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Pal Joey Cast |
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Rita Hayworth
(as Vera Simpson)
with Frank Sinatra
(as Joey Evans)
Frank Sinatra
(as Joey Evans)
with Kim Novak
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Other InformationAwardsBest Written American Musical Writers Guild of America, USA [1958] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Top Music Director Laurel Awards [1958] (Won/Nominated: 2nd place) Top Musical Laurel Awards [1958] (Won/Nominated: Won) Top Male Musical Performance Laurel Awards [1958] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Sound, Recording Academy Awards [1958] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Film Editing Academy Awards [1958] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Costume Design Academy Awards [1958] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Art Direction-Set Decoration Academy Awards [1958] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Plot SummaryThe John O`Hara/Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Broadway musical Pal Joey created quite a stir during its original theatrical run in 1940. Here we had a heel of a hero who sleeps with a wealthy older woman in order to realize his dream of owning his own ... TaglineJOY STORY OF JOEY...(the heel)! From Your Pal, Columbia! DiscographySinglesHappy Hunting Horn Take Him Plant You Now, Dig You Later Do it the Hard Way Bewitched That Terrific Rainbow I Didn`t Know What Time it Was A Great Big Town What Do I Care for a Dame Zip My Funny Valentine The Lady is a Tramp I Could Write a Book There`s a Small Hotel |
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Pal Joey (1957) was nominated for the following awards:
Golden GlobesLaurel Awards |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Joey Evans: The only thing I`m superstitious about is 13 in a bed.
Linda English: What did I do last night?
Joey Evans: You kissed me.
Linda English: I wasn`t myself.
Joey Evans: Whoever you were, you were great!
Joey Evans: Good Morning!
Linda English: What`s good about it?
Joey Evans: First hangover? Well, there`s a first time for everything.
Linda English: Why do people drink when you feel so awful the morning after?
Joey Evans: Maybe because it feels so good the night before.
Vera Simpson: Who`s she?
Joey Evans: She`s just a mouse.
Vera Simpson: Me and Joey are the same type of cat, we understand each other.
Linda English: My mother always says a lady`s a lady wherever she goes
Joey Evans: And a bum`s a bum wherever he goes.
Linda English: I`m never drinking again.
Joey Evans: First hangover?
Linda English: Why does it feel so bad?
Joey Evans: It only feels so bad in the morning cause it feels so good the night before.
Trivia Pal Joey opened at Ethel Barrymore Theater on December 25, 1940 and ran for 374 performances.
Columbia Studios head Harry Cohn suggested Marlene Dietrich for the role of Vera Simpson. Dietrich turned down the part but suggested her friend Frank Sinatra for the role of Joey after Gene Kelly was denied the part. Cohn suggested `Jack Lemmon` before Sinatra was eventually cast. Rita Hayworth plays the rich older woman keeping Frank Sinatra as her boy toy. In real life, Hayworth was only in her late thirties when she made this film and was three years younger than Sinatra. Billy Wilder was the original choice to direct. He discussed it with Columbia studio head Harry Cohn over lunch one day. Not only did Cohn turn down him as director, but he later sent Wilder a bill for their lunch. After Harry Cohn saw the success of the Gene Kelly/Rita Hayworth team in the musical Cover Girl (1944), the two were promised this film. Sadly, it took another 15 years for it to reach the screen, and by that time Kelly, whose star-making role was in the original 1940 Broadway production, was bound to MGM and Hayworth was given the role of the older woman, with Kim Novak now playing the younger woman. | ||
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