Calling All Girls

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This Warner Bros. short film shows the process that studios use to select women for the chorus line in movie musicals. It then presents a few clips of chorus lines in Busby Berkeley producti... Read allThis Warner Bros. short film shows the process that studios use to select women for the chorus line in movie musicals. It then presents a few clips of chorus lines in Busby Berkeley production numbers from 1930s Warner Bros. musicals.This Warner Bros. short film shows the process that studios use to select women for the chorus line in movie musicals. It then presents a few clips of chorus lines in Busby Berkeley production numbers from 1930s Warner Bros. musicals.

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6.5/10

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Owen Crump

Narrator
(voice)

James Cagney

Chester Kent
(archive footage)

Ruby Keeler

Bea Thorn
(archive footage)

Director
- Jean Negulesco
Writer
- Owen Crump
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Trivia
Included on the Warner DVD of The Big Street (1942).

Quotes
Narrator: Assembling the cast of a big time musical is no easy task. The process of selecting just the right girls is a careful one. Not only their looks are considered, but their physical well being noted, since the arduous hours of rehearsal demand only those in top condition.

Crazy credits
The narrator identifies James Cagney and Ruby Keeler.

Connections
Featured in Hooray for Hollywood (1982)

Soundtracks
Hooray for Hollywood
(uncredited)
Music by Richard A. Whiting
Played during the opening montage

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5/10

Some Guy Who Used to Work Here

Here's one of those Warner Brothers short subjects made up of clips from old movies. After narrator Owen Crump talks about pretty girls making a play to become Hollywood stars, it's time for a casting call: Busby Berkley needs a lot of women for one of his production numbers! Too bad he's gone to MGM to direct Esther Williams films!

Jean Negulesco is credited as director, but it's more a job of editing, with plenty of process shots and some liberal use of an optical printer. Negulesco entered the movies and his earliest direction was of Warner's musical shorts, and his editing was a lot more complex than earlier workers' had been.