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Step Lively is a 1944 American musical film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Frank Sinatra. Step Lively was based on the 1937 play Room Service, by Allen Boretz and John Murray. It was a remake of the 1938 RKO film Room Service, starring the Marx Brothers, Lucille Ball, and Ann Miller.

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Step Lively
Theatrical release lobby card
Directed by	Tim Whelan
Written by	Allen Boretz (play) John Murray (play) Warren Duff Peter Milne
Produced by	Robert Fellows
Starring	Frank Sinatra George Murphy Adolphe Menjou Gloria DeHaven Walter Slezak Eugene Pallette
Cinematography	Robert De Grasse
Edited by	Gene Milford
Music by	Leigh Harline (uncredited)
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date	July 26, 1944 (1944-07-26)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

PLOT SYNOPSIS:

Theatrical producer Gordon Miller(Murphy) is hoping his new play will be a hit so he can pay off an enormous hotel bill. Hotel manager Joe Gribble(Slezak),Miller's brother-in-law, has allowed Miller and his entire cast to live at the hotel on credit.

Wagner(Menjou),a company auditor,arrives unexpectedly.As does playwright Glenn Russell(Sinatra),who has left his small town hoping to collect a large amount of(non-existent) royalties on his play.Russell ends up taking a lead musical role in his own production.

Miller has mixed loyalties,as his girlfriend(De Haven) has fallen head over heels for Sinatra.

Everyone in the film seems to be cast against type.Sophisticated Menjou is the target of most of the slapstick;non-comedian Murphy is the lead comic;and screen villain Slezak plays a beleaguered milquestoast.

Cast

• Frank Sinatra as Glenn Russell
• George Murphy as Gordon Miller
• Adolphe Menjou as Wagner
• Gloria DeHaven as Christine Marlowe
• Walter Slezak as Joe Gribble
• Eugene Pallette as Simon Jenkins
• Wally Brown as Binion
• Alan Carney as Harry
• Grant Mitchell as Dr. Gibbs
• Anne Jeffreys as Miss Abbott
• Richard Davies

Reviews

Bosley Crowther, reviewing for The New York Times, called Step Lively a star vehicle for Frank Sinatra; although the scenes with Sinatra "perceptibly hobble[d] the farce," and Crowther compared him unfavorably to Eddie Albert, Crowther stated that "when [the remaining cast] are left alone to play "Room Service" they make this an up-and-coming film."[1]

Awards

The film was nominated an Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Albert S. D'Agostino, Carroll Clark, Darrell Silvera, Claude E. Carpenter).[2]

See also

• Frank Sinatra filmography

References

External links

• Step Lively at IMDb
• Step Lively at the TCM Movie Database

На других языках

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[de] Step Lively

Step Lively ist eine US-amerikanische Filmkomödie von Tim Whelan aus dem Jahr 1944 mit dem jungen Frank Sinatra in einer seiner frühen Kinorollen. Der Film ist ein Remake der Marx-Brothers-Produktion Room Service aus dem Jahre 1938 und basiert auf dem gleichnamigen Theaterstück (1937) von John Murray und Allen Boretz.

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- [en] Step Lively (1944 film)

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