Anything Goes (1956)


Anything Goes
Release Date01 April 1956
GenreMusical
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
Sound MixMono
ColorColor
Film TypeFeature
Film ClassShowbiz Comedy, Musical Comedy
ThemesShip Cruises
TonesBright, Upbeat
TagsActor, Ocean Cruise, Oceanliner, Performer, Show, Theatrical Agent

Anything Goes is a 1956 musical film adapted from the Cole Porter, Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse stage production of the same title. The book was drastically rewritten for the second film version, also by Paramount, released in 1956. Though this movie again starred Bing Crosby (whose character was once more renamed), Donald O'Connor, and comedian Phil Harris in a cameo, the new movie almost completely excised the rest of the characters in favor of a totally new plot. The movie features almost no similarities to the play or 1936 film, apart from some songs and the title. Showbiz partners Bill Benson (Crosby) and Ted Adams (O'Connor) some 20 years Crosby's junior, each travel to Paris to sign a dancer to star in their new show. The problem? There is only one role, and the men have unknowingly cast two dancers, Patsy Blair (Mitzi Gaynor) and Gaby Duval (Zizi Jeanmaire). It is up to the men to sort out their mess on the cruise back to America.


Cast and Crew


Cast

Bill Benson

Ted Adams

Gaby Duval

Patsy Blair

Steve Blair

Victor Lawrence

Richard Erdman
Ed Brent

Walter Sande
Alex Todd

Archer MacDonald
Otto

Argentina Brunetti
Suzanne

Alma Macrorie
French Baroness

Dorothy Neumann
German Woman

James Griffith
Paul Holiday

Linda Bennett
Ann

John Benson
Man

Albert Carrier
Assistant Purser

Robert Carson
Backstage Party Dance Extra

Lesley-Marie Colburn
Little Girl

Ship's Captain

Jann Darlyn
Girl

Jean Del Val
French Luggage Man

John Erman
Boy

Dance Extra on Ship

Emily Heath
Young American Girl

Tom Hernández
Frenchman

Craig Hill
Danny

Parisian Nightclub Table Extra

Lucille Knox
Party Girl

Autograph seeker

Girl

Edward Manouk
French Sailor

Virginia McDowall
English Usherette

Don Megowan
Henri

Torben Meyer
French Waiter

Buzz Miller
Specialty Dancer

Alberto Morin
Captain of Waiters

Doris Packer
English Woman in Audience

Tracy Roberts
Blanche

Party Girl

Tony Russel
French Sailor

Autograph Seeker

Marc Wilder
Specialty Dancer

Director

Robert Lewis
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Writer

Producer

Robert Emmett Dolan
producer

Cinematographer

John F. Warren

Editor

Frank Bracht
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Art Director

J. McMillan Johnson

Hal Pereira
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Set Decorator

Sam Comer
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Grace Gregory
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Costume Designer

Makeup Department

Wally Westmore
makeup supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

John R. Coonan
assistant director

Sound Department

Gene Garvin
sound recordist

Gene Merritt
sound recordist

Bill Wistrom
sound editor

Special Effects

special photographic effects

Camera and Electrical Department

Farciot Edouart
process photographer

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Tom Keogh
costume designer: ballet

Editorial Department

Richard Mueller
color consultant: Technicolor

Music Department

Nick Castle
stager: musical numbers

Joseph J. Lilley
conductor, music arranger: musical numbers

Van Cleave
special orchestral arranger

Other Crew

Ernie Flatt
stager: "Anything Goes"

Roland Petit
stager: Jeanmaire ballet and "I Get a Kick of You"

Production Company

Paramount Pictures
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Distributor

Paramount Pictures

National Broadcasting Company (NBC)






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