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Higher and higher [videorecording]

Title: Higher and higher [videorecording]
Publication: 1943.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Moving image	Use in library	*MGZIA 4-1052	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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1 cassette. 90 min. : sd. b&w NTSC.; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

When a rich man faces bankruptcy, his staff plots to save him by marrying off the maid, disguised as his daughter, to a monied aristocrat.

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Motion picture originally released by RKO Radio Pictures in 1943; re-issued as a videocassette in 1990 by Turner Home Entertainment. Producer/director: Tim Whelan.
Choreography: Ernst Matray. Music: Jimmy McHugh. Lyrics: Harold Adamson. Screenplay: Jay Dratler and Ralph Spence, based upon the musical play Higher and higher, book by Gladys Hurlbut and Joshua Logan. Art direction: Albert S. D'Agostino and Jack Okey. Costumes: Edward Stevenson.
Performed by Frank Sinatra (Frank), Michele Morgan (Millie), Jack Haley (Mike), Leon Errol (Mr. Drake), Victor Borge (Sir Victor), Marcy Maguire, Mel Tormé, Barbara Hale, Paul and Grace Hartman, and others.

Contents

DANCE CONTENTS: Brief minuet performed by Morgan and Haley. -- "Minuet in boogie" includes dancing by cast members playing former servants. -- Most of the songs also include some dance movement.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-1052

OCLC

NYPY916033133-F

Title

Higher and higher [videorecording]

Imprint

1943.

Local Subject

Motion pictures. Higher and higher.

Added Author

Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998. Performer

Morgan, Michèle, 1920-2016. Performer

Haley, Jack, 1897-1979. Performer

Borge, Victor. Performer

Whelan, Tim. Producer. Director

Matray, Ernst, choreographer.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-1052

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