Ballin’ the Jack is oddly popular in films. It’s been performed by Gene Kelly and Judy Garland in For Me and My Gal, by Dean Martin and Polly Bergen in That’s My Boy, by Danny Kaye in On the Riviera and on his album, Entertainer Extraordinary, sung by Gilda Radner and Dom Deluise (in drag!) in Haunted Honeymoon.
Ballin’ the Jack
The bells are ringing for me and my gal
The birds are singing for me and my gal
Everybody’s been knowing
To a wedding they’re going
And for weeks they’ve been sewing
Every Susie and Sal
They’re congregating for me and my gal
The Parson’s waiting for me and my gal
For Me and My Gal is a good many things — an ode to vaudeville, with some excellent song and dance routines, a “boy meets girl” movie, the film debut of Gene Kelly, a patriotic movie — and a very good movie overall. Frankly, what’s most refreshing about For Me and My Gal is that the protagonist is a flawed person. His flaws lead to his problems, and whose overcoming them leads to character growth.
What a Way to Go is a black comedy. It opens with Louisa Foster donating a multi-million dollar check to the IRS. The tax department thinks she’s crazy and sends her to a psychiatrist. She then discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
What a Way to Go
Ziegfeld Follies is an attempt at recreating the spectacle of Flo Ziegfeld’s famous Broadway shows … And so the film is a series of unrelated musical and comedy routines. They’re unconnected except by the narration of the ghostly Flo Ziegfeld (played by William Powell) as he sits back in Heaven, thinking of the spectacles that he could create with then-current stars. The various acts include:
Ziegfeld Follies![Anchors Aweigh [Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly]](https://family-friendly-movies.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/anchors-aweigh-dvd-frank-sinatra-kathryn-grayson-gene-kelly.jpg)
Anchors Aweigh, the classical musical comedy, starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly – where two sailors fly in love while on shore leave …
Anchors Aweigh
Song lyrics to I Got Rhythm, written by the Gershwin brothers in 1930 for the musical Girl Crazy. It has become a Jazz standard, used in multiple films (An American in Paris, Mr. Holland’s Opus, My Girl) and recorded by many artists including Judy Garland, Ethel Merman, Ella Fitzgerald, Karen Carpenter, Bing Crosby, Barbara Streisand and many others.
