Star Spangled Rhythm
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| Star Spangled Rhythm | |
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| Directed by | George Marshall |
| Release date(s) | 1942 |
| Running time | 99 min. |
| Country | U.S.A. |
| Language | English |
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Star Spangled Rhythm is a 1942 all-star cast musical film made by Paramount Pictures during World War II as a as morale booster.
Many of the Hollywood studios produced such films during the war. They were generally musicals, frequently with flimsy storylines, and had the specific intent of entertaining both the troops overseas and the civilians back home, as well as to encourage fundraising and to show the studios' patriotism.
Star Spangled Rhythm was directed by George Marshall, produced by Joseph Sistrom and written by Melvin Frank, George S. Kaufman, Arthur Ross, Fred Saidy and Harry Tugend. The music was by Harold Arlen, Robert Emmett Dolan and Johnny Mercer, the cinematography by Theodor Sparkuhl and Leo Tover, the art direction by Hans Dreier and Ernst Fegté and the costume design by Edith Head.
The cast consisted of most of the stars on the Paramount roster. They included Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Fred MacMurray, Franchot Tone, Ray Milland, Victor Moore, Dorothy Lamour, Paulette Goddard, Vera Zorina, Mary Martin, Dick Powell, Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, William Bendix, Jerry Colonna, Macdonald Carey, Walter Abel, Susan Hayward, Marjorie Reynolds. There are also appearances by directors Cecil B. DeMille, Preston Sturges and Ralph Murphy.
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