Wabash Avenue (1950)


Wabash Avenue
Release Date31 March 1950
Budget$2,000,000
GenreMusical
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
Sound MixMono
ColorColor
Film TypeFeature
TagsBar [pub], Casino, Competition, Dance [art], Entertainer, Love, Love Triangle, Musical [play], Owner, Producer [showbiz], Rival, Romance, Scoundrel, Show, Songwriter, Star, Success, Trick

Wabash Avenue is a 1950 musical film directed by Henry Koster and starring Betty Grable. The film was a remake of Grable's earlier hit 1943 film Coney Island.


Cast and Crew


Cast

Ruby Summers

Andy Clark

Mike Stanley

English Eddie

James Barton
Harrigan

Barry Kelley
Bouncer

Tillie Hutch

Jacqueline Dalya
Cleo

Robin Raymond
Jennie

Hal K. Dawson
Healy

Dorothy Neumann
Reformer

Alexander Pope
Charlie Saxe

Joe Barton

Marie Bryant
Elsa

Collette Lyons
Beulah

Horace Carter

Dick Crockett
Bartender

Louis Bacigalupi
Poker Player

Harlan

Wax Museum attendant

Leonard Bremen
Poker Player

Claire Carleton
Tessie

Douglas Carter
Ferris wheel operator

David Clarke
Workman

Harold Cornsweet
Bartender

James Cross
Poker Player

Poker Player

Billy Daniel
Dancer

Sailor

Joe Gray
Saloon patron

Mack Gray
Poker Player

Ruby Dale Hearn
Tumbler

Ship captain

Norman Leavitt
Poker Player

Peggy Leon
Hairdresser

Walter B. Long
Dancer

Chorus girl

John 'Skins' Miller
Drunk

Paul Newlan
Bouncer

Himself

Barbara A. Pellegrino
Tumbler

William 'Bill' Phillips
Attendant

Policeman

Policeman

Billy Snyder
Ticket Vendor

Mary Stewart
Dancer, Singer

Electrician

Director

Producer

screenplay, story

Harry Tugend
screenplay

William Perlberg
producer

Cinematographer

Arthur E. Arling
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Editor

Robert L. Simpson

Art Director

Joseph C. Wright
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Set Decorator

Paul S. Fox
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Thomas Little
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Costume Designer

Makeup Department

Marie Brasselle
hair stylist

makeup artist

Kay Reed
hair stylist

Production Manager

A.F. Erickson
production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

assistant director

Sound Department

Alfred Bruzlin
sound

Roger Heman Sr.
sound

Special Effects

Fred Sersen
special photographic effects

Camera and Electrical Department

Irving Rosenberg
camera operator

Emmett Schoenbaum
still photographer

Editorial Department

Richard Mueller
color consultant

Music Department

Ken Darby
vocal director

orchestrator

James Kendis
composer: song "Billy"

musical director

Herman Paley
composer: song "Billy"

Herbert W. Spencer
orchestrator

Other Crew

Angela Blue
assistant choreographer

Billy Daniel
choreographer

Doris Drought
script supervisor

Production Company

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
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Distributor

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation






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Films directed by Henry Koster
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Desirée (1954)
Elopement (1951)
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