The Harvey Girls
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| Directed by |
George Sidney Robert Alton (musical number) |
| Produced by | Arthur Freed |
| Written by | Kay Van Riper (additional dialogue) |
| Screenplay by | Edmund Beloin Nathaniel Curtis Harry Crane James O'Hanlon Samson Raphaelson |
| Story by |
Eleanore Griffin William Rankin |
| Based on |
The Harvey Girls 1942 novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams |
| Starring | Judy Garland |
| Music by |
Harry Warren (music) Johnny Mercer (lyrics) Lennie Hayton (score) |
| Cinematography | George J. Folsey |
| Edited by | Albert Akst |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time
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102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2,931,000 |
| Box office | $5,175,000 |
The Harvey Girls is a 1946 MGM musical film based on the 1942 novel of the same name by Samuel Hopkins Adams, about Fred Harvey's famous Harvey House waitresses. Directed by George Sidney, the film stars Judy Garland and features John Hodiak, Ray Bolger, and Angela Lansbury, as well as Preston Foster, Virginia O'Brien, Kenny Baker, Marjorie Main and Chill Wills. Future star Cyd Charisse appears in her first film speaking role on film.
The Harvey Girls won an Academy Award for Best Song for "On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe", written by Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer. The film was a production of the Arthur Freed unit at MGM.
In the 1890s, a group of "Harvey Girls" - new waitresses for Fred Harvey's pioneering chain of Harvey House restaurants - travels on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF) to the western town of Sandrock, Arizona. On the trip they meet Susan Bradley (Judy Garland), who travels to the same town to marry the man whose beautiful letters she received when she answered a "lonely-hearts" ad. Unfortunately, when she arrives, the man turns out to be an "old coot" who does not at all meet her expectations – and he also wants not to get married as much as she wants not to marry him, so they agree to call it off. When she learns that someone else, the owner of the local saloon, Ned Trent (John Hodiak), wrote the letters as a joke, she confronts him and tells him off, in the process endearing herself to him.
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