A Guy Named Joe (1943)


A Guy Named Joe
Release Date24 December 1943
Budget$3,000,000
TaglineA GUY - A GAL - A PAL - It's Swell!
GenreDrama, Romance, War, Fantasy
CountryUSA
Filming LocationsColumbia Army Air Base, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
LanguageEnglish
Sound MixMono
ColorBlack and White

A Guy Named Joe is a 1943 film made by MGM, directed by Victor Fleming, produced by Everett Riskin, from a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo, adapted by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan from a story by Chandler Sprague and David Boehm. It starred Spencer Tracy, Esther Williams, Irene Dunne and Van Johnson and featured the popular song "I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)" by Fred Ahlert and Roy Turk.


Cast and Crew


Cast

Pete Sandidge

Dorinda Durston

Ted Randall

Al Yackey

'Nails' Kilpatrick

The General

Dick Rumney

Ellen Bright

Colonel Sykes

James J. Rourke

Sanderson

Major Corbett

Officer in Heaven

Bill Arthur
Cadet

Martin Ashe
Sergeant in Chinese Restaurant

George Atkinson
Waiter

Corporal Henderson

Dora Baker
Charwoman

Steve Barclay
Flier

Ted Billings
Man

Charles Bimbo
Man

William Bishop
Ray - Transport Pilot

John Bogden
Cadet

Becky Bohanon
English Girl

Eddie Borden
Taxi Driver

Fred Coby
Cadet

Eddie Coke
Corporal

Sergeant Hanson

Oliver Cross
American Major

Mark Daniels
Lieutenant

Edward Davies
Bartender

Vernon Downing
English Liaison Officer

Johnny Dunn
Cadet

Dance Hall Girl

Major

Craig Flannagan
American Lieutenant

John Frederick
Lieutenant Ridley

Mary Ganley
Woman in Chinese Restaurant

Leatrice Joy Gilbert
Woman in Chinese Restaurant

Bartender

Richard Graham
Crew Member

Herbert Gunn
Cadet

Aileen Haley
Hostess

George - English Boy

Carey Harrison
American Major in Red Lion Inn

Louis Hart
Cadet

Gertrude Hoffman
Old Woman

Earl Kent
American Lieutenant

Charles King
Lieutenant Collins

George Kirby
Fisherman

Harold Landon
Cadet

Nelson Leigh
Man

Robert Lowell
Flier

Woman

William Manning
Co-pilot

James Martin
Cadet

Mary McLeod
Hostess

James Millican
Orderly

Neyle Morrow
Flier

Captain Robertson

Melvin Nix
American Lieutenant

Simon Olivier
Boy

Stanley Orr
English Captain

Michael Owen
American Lieutenant

Jean Prescott
Mother

Stafford Quartet
Background Singers: "I'll See You in My Dreams"

Walter Sande
Sande - Mess sergeant

Jack Saunders
American Captain

Earl Schenck
Colonel Hendricks

Ken Scott
Cadet

Violet Seaton
Bartender's Wife

Bernard Sell
Co-pilot

Christopher Severn
Peter - English Boy

Ernest Severn
Davey - English Boy

Raymond Severn
Cyril - English Boy

Yvonne Severn
Elizabeth - English Girl

Jessie Tai Sing
Headwaitress

Bill Sloan
Man

Arthur Space
San Francisco Airport Captain

English Colonel

Arthur Stenning
Fisherman

Clarence Straight
Flight Sergeant

Robert Sully
Cadet

Carlie Taylor
English Captain

Woman in Chinese Restaurant

Elizabeth Valentine
Washerwoman's Child

Leslie Vincent
Sentry

James Warren
Irish Guard

Girlfriend of Rourke

Officer in Heaven

Girl at Bar

Matt Willis
Lieutenant Hunter

Alan Wilson
Sergeant in Jeep

Allen Wood
Tough Corporal

Richard Woodruff
Cadet

Director

Writer

Chandler Sprague

David Boehm

Frederick Hazlitt Brennan

Producer

Everett Riskin
producer

Original Music

Cinematographer

Editor

Frank Sullivan
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Art Director

Set Decorator

Edwin B. Willis
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Production Manager

Gilbert Kurland
unit manager

Jay Marchant
unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

John Burch
assistant director: Luke Field

Ralph Ceder
second unit director: Luke Field

Horace Hough
assistant director

William Kaplan
second unit director: Drew Field

Joe Popkin
assistant director: Luke Field

Dolph Zimmer
assistant director

Art Department

Ralph S. Hurst
associate set decorator

associate art director

Walter Decker
location greensman

Hal Dumas
location props

Carl Feist
location props

George Green
location props

Richard Hendrickson
location props

Winfield Hubbard
location props

Jerry Kelley
location props

Herman Kirchner
location greensman

Lynn Leishman
location plasterer

Joe McKinnon
location props

Johnny Menta
location greensman

Jack Myron
location painter

Richard Neblett
location props

Luther Newman
location props

Don Pringle
location greensman

Jasper Queen
location painter

Thomas Rockwell
location greensman

Abe Siegel
location greensman

George Vertafeville
location props

James Vesey
location painter

Roy Whitcomb
location props

Sound Department

recording director

Special Effects

A. Arnold Gillespie
special effects

Donald Jahraus
special effects

Warren Newcombe
special effects

Camera and Electrical Department

Frank Bjeering
location still photographer

Sam Browning
location still photographer

Bert Eason
location assistant camera

William Greenwalt
location grip

Matt Klosnick
location assistant camera

Karl Reed
location grip

Harry Reid
location grip

Jack Smith
location camera

Walter Strenge
location camera operator

George Webber
location camera

Charles Wecker
location assistant camera

Costume and Wardrobe Department

costume supervisor

Richard Chaney
location wardrobe

Music Department

Alberto Colombo
composer: additional music

Murray Cutter
orchestrator

music arranger

Other Crew

Edward G. Hillary
technical advisor

William Doran
location script clerk

Lewis Jarrard
location script clerk

Glen Stephens
double: Barry Nelson

Harry Warren
double: Spencer Tracy

Production Company

Loew's

MGM-International Dist.
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Distributor

MGM-International Dist.

MGM/UA Home Entertainment

Loew's

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)






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