Call Me Mister (film)
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Betty Grable and Dan Dailey on a Call Me Mister lobby card.
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| Directed by | Lloyd Bacon |
| Produced by | Fred Kohlmar |
| Written by |
Harold Rome Arnold M. Auerbach Burt Styler |
| Based on |
Call Me Mister 1946 musical by Albert E. Lewin |
| Starring |
Betty Grable Dan Dailey |
| Music by | Leigh Harline |
| Cinematography | Arthur E. Arling |
| Edited by | Louis R. Loeffler |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox |
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96 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $2,175,000 (US rentals) |
Call Me Mister is a 1951 Technicolor musical film released by Twentieth Century-Fox. The feature was directed by Lloyd Bacon and re-written from the 1946 Broadway play version by Albert E. Lewin and Burt Styler with music by Harold Rome that featured cast members from the US armed forces.
Call Me Mister was filmed in Technicolor, and starred Betty Grable and Dan Dailey and co-starred Danny Thomas with supporting players Dale Robertson, Benay Venuta, and Richard Boone. Only a couple Harold Rome numbers were kept in the film.
The film was a film version of the Broadway version of Call Me Mister, but was also changed to be a remake of Betty Grable's 1941 film A Yank in the RAF. It was one of Grable's final "successful" films as her box-office power was beginning to diminish. This was also Grable's final film with Dan Dailey, with whom she co-starred in several of her previous films. Call Me Mister was a "moderate success" at the box-office.
After the end of World War II American soldiers in occupied Japan are entertained with a show put on by one of their own Sergeant Shep Dooley (Dan Dailey) and his former wife who is an entertainer Kay Hudson (Betty Grable).
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