Research Catalog

Title

Give a girl a break [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; director, Stanley Donen ; producer, Jack Cummings ; screenplay, Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich.

Publication

Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, 1991, c1953.

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Additional Authors

• Champion, Marge.
• Champion, Gower, 1919-1980
• Reynolds, Debbie.
• Wood, Helen, 1917-
• Fosse, Bob, 1927-1987
• Kasznar, Kurt, 1913-1979.
• Donen, Stanley
• Cummings, Jack, 1900-1989
• Lane, Burton, 1912-1997.
• Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983
• Hackett, Albert.
• Goodrich, Frances.
• Caspary, Vera, 1899-1987.
• Gibbons, Cedric, 1895-1960.
• Rose, Helen.
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
• DHCA.

Description

1 videocassette (82 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Musical about the complications that ensue when three collaborators on a Broadway production each back a different candidate for leading lady.

Subjects

• Features
• Tap dancing
• Auditions
• Dance
• Motion pictures
• Musicals

Genre/Form

• Motion pictures.
• Features.
• Musicals.
• Dance.

Note

• Motion picture originally released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1953; re-released as a videotape in 1991 by MGM/UA Home Video, Culver City, CA.

Credits (note)

• Director of photography, William Mellor ; choreography, Stanley Donen and Gower Champion ; music, Burton Lane ; lyrics, Ira Gershwin ; story, Vera Caspary ; art direction, Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse ; costumes, Helen Rose (women) and Herschel McCoy (men).

Performer (note)

• Marge Champion (Madelyn Corlane), Gower Champion (Ted Sturgis), Debbie Reynolds (Suzy Doolittle), Helen Wood (Joanna Moss), Bob Fosse (Bob Dowdy), Kurt Kasznar (Leo Belney), Richard Anderson (Burton Bradshaw), William Ching (Anson Pritchett), Lurene Tuttle (Mrs. Doolittle), Larry Keating (Felix Jordan), and others.

Contents

Dance contents: "Give a girl a break" / performed by Marge Champion, Reynolds, and Wood -- "Nothing is impossible" / performed by Gower Champion, Fosse, and Kasznar -- "In our united state" / performed by Fosse and Reynolds -- [Challenge dance] / performed by Marge Champion and Gower Champion -- [Audition dances] / performed by Reynolds, Wood, and Marge Champion -- [Fantasy dance, including the song] "It happens every time" / performed by Reynolds and Fosse, Wood and Kasznar, and Marge Champion and Gower Champion, with ensemble -- "Applause, applause" / performed by Reynolds, Gower Champion, and ensemble.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-1964

ISBN

0792806778

OCLC

• 24347999
• NYPY94-F21

Title

Give a girl a break [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; director, Stanley Donen ; producer, Jack Cummings ; screenplay, Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich.

Imprint

Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, 1991, c1953.

Credits

Director of photography, William Mellor ; choreography, Stanley Donen and Gower Champion ; music, Burton Lane ; lyrics, Ira Gershwin ; story, Vera Caspary ; art direction, Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse ; costumes, Helen Rose (women) and Herschel McCoy (men).

Cast

Marge Champion (Madelyn Corlane), Gower Champion (Ted Sturgis), Debbie Reynolds (Suzy Doolittle), Helen Wood (Joanna Moss), Bob Fosse (Bob Dowdy), Kurt Kasznar (Leo Belney), Richard Anderson (Burton Bradshaw), William Ching (Anson Pritchett), Lurene Tuttle (Mrs. Doolittle), Larry Keating (Felix Jordan), and others.

Added Author

Champion, Marge. Performer

Champion, Gower, 1919-1980, choreographer.

Champion, Gower, 1919-1980, performer.

Reynolds, Debbie. Performer

Wood, Helen, 1917- Performer

Fosse, Bob, 1927-1987, performer.

Kasznar, Kurt, 1913-1979. Performer

Donen, Stanley, film director.

Donen, Stanley, choreographer.

Cummings, Jack, 1900-1989, film producer.

Lane, Burton, 1912-1997. Composer

Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983, lyricist.

Hackett, Albert. Screenwriter

Goodrich, Frances. Screenwriter

Caspary, Vera, 1899-1987. Author

Gibbons, Cedric, 1895-1960. Designer

Rose, Helen. Costume designer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-1964