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Other InformationAwardsBest Music, Original Song Academy Awards [1948] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Plot SummaryThis second film version of the DeSylva/Brown/Henderson Broadway musical Good News may not be the best of the Arthur Freed-produced MGM musicals, but it`s certainly one of the peppiest. The film is set at Tait college during the Roaring 20s. The wisp... Related MoviesGood News [Remake of] (Year of movie: 1930) DiscographySinglesVarsity Drag Just Imagine Pass That Peace Pipe The Best Things in Life Are Free The French Lesson Lucky in Love Be a Ladies` Man Tait Song Good News |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Pooch: Don`t say it! You can think it but don`t say it out loud! The evil spirits don`t like it. Pooch: Psychology! It`s black magic, leave it alone! [to Connie, looking into her eyes]
Tommy Marlowe: They sure are blue. Babe Doolittle: Well, Bobby, here I am.
Bobby Turner: What?
Babe Doolittle: It`s time for that dance I promised you.
Bobby Turner: Go away! Beef said he`d kill anybody that came near you.
Babe Doolittle: Well, wouldn`t it be worth it?
Bobby Turner: No!
Babe Doolittle: Bobby, you and me are soul mates.
Bobby Turner: What?
Babe Doolittle: I won`t take no for an answer. Tell me you love me.
[Showing her arm]
Babe Doolittle: Look at that. Goosepimples. Think it`s cold? No, it`s you.
Bobby Turner: Yeah? Well, look at that.
[Points at his arm]
Bobby Turner: Goosepimples. You think it`s you? No, it`s Beef! Bobby Turner: Babe! Go away!
Babe Doolittle: Is that all you have to say to me?
Bobby Turner: No! Leave me alone! Pooch: Come on, Bobby, get your uniform off.
Bobby Turner: Aw, gee, Poochy. I get so little chance to wear it I like to keep it on until the last minute. Sometimes I even rub a little dirt on it just to convince myself I`m really on the team. Pooch: And another thing... the boys don`t understand a thing you`re saying. They`re waiting for the signals, you give them the signals - but they`re in French!
[Tommy rattles off a some French vocabulary words]
Tommy Marlowe: Guess I can`t help it, Poochy. Language comes easy to me. I`ve only been in class five days and already I speak like a native. I don`t know of what country, but, ah, like a native. Tommy Marlowe: Pat, I don`t understand it, I`m a very popular guy!
Pat McClellan: [uninterested] Oh, really?
Tommy Marlowe: Yes, by this time next year I`ll be All-American!
Pat McClellan: Oh, does that mean you`ll be a citizen? Tommy Marlowe: What a vocabulary! Wait until I spring this on Pat!
Connie Lane: Why don`t you just hit her over the head with a hockey stick? Babe Doolittle: I`ve been reading that psychology you were talking about. I`ve got a split personality!
Beef: Well, if anyone comes near you, they`ll be a split-personality! Connie Lane: [as Pat McClellan is admiring herself in the mirror] Gee, I wish someone loved me like you love you! Beef: I used to think I had a mother fixation... Never did like her. I like you better.
Pat McClellan: Oh, Beef, you`re a panic! [after getting out of a car with college boys piled upon her as she hides]
Babe Doolittle: Gee, the old place hasn`t changed much. I wonder if McKinley`s still president?Trivia Under contract to the Musicraft label, Mel Tormé was "officially" excluded from the MGM Records soundtrack album, although he was heard singing "Be a Ladies` Man" with Peter Lawford and Ray McDonald. On a 78-rpm single, Musicraft issued Mel`s remake of one film song: the DeSylva, Brown and Henderson evergreen, "The Best Things in Life Are Free." All of Mel Tormé`s prerecordings have been restored on the soundtrack CD from Rhino Handmade. The one Musicraft revamp is included on a Living Era CD entitled "The Velvet Fog." Mel Tormé`s vocals were not featured on the MGM soundtrack album. Under contract to Musicraft Records, Mel remade one of his film songs as a 78-rpm single: the DeSylva, Brown and Henderson evergreen, "The Best Things in Life Are Free." One of the three films June Allyson considered her personal favorites of her films. The original musical was based on the an actual sorority, Pi Beta Phi. The song, "The Girl of the Pi Beta Phi" was kept on the 1996 soundtrack, but deleted from the 1947 film. The name of the sorority was changed in the 1947 movie to the fictitious "Phi Gamma Gamma". One song called "An Easier Way" was cut prior to release but it can be seen on the DVD of the film. Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, director Busby Berkeley, and producer Arthur Freed were planning to remake this as a follow-up to Babes in Arms (1939). But when Louis B. Mayer suggested instead to Freed to capitalize on the swing music craze, they switched gears into the production of Strike Up the Band (1940). Since Peter Lawford spoke French fluently and June Allyson did not, Lawford had to teach Allyson how to teach him to speak French in the French Lesson scene.
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