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Coney Island is a 1943 American Technicolor musical film released by Twentieth Century Fox and starring Betty Grable in one of her biggest hits. A "gay nineties" musical (set in that time period), it also featured George Montgomery, Cesar Romero, and Phil Silvers, was choreographed by Hermes Pan, and was directed by Walter Lang.
Despite the often similar storylines, her films remained immensely popularity for over a decade, some of them becoming the year's highest-grossing films, including Springtime in the Rockies (1942), Coney Island (1943), The Dolly Sisters (1945), and When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948).
Title Director Cast Genre Notes Above Suspicion: Richard Thorpe: Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt: Spy: MGM: Action in the North Atlantic: Lloyd Bacon, Raoul Walsh: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale Sr.
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Mother Wore Tights is a 1947 American Technicolor musical film starring Betty Grable and Dan Dailey as married vaudeville performers, directed by Walter Lang. [4] This was Grable and Dailey's first film together, based on a book of the same name by Miriam Young. It was the highest grossing film of Grable's career up to this time, earning more ...
Betty Grable was the number one box-office attraction at the time of this film's release. Her other film that year was Coney Island, and both were among the top 10 highest-grossing films of 1943 and two of 20th Century Fox's big money makers that year.
Negotiations dissolved but exhibitors had been promised that title so 20th Century Fox hastily substituted a rewrite of its 1943 Coney Island. (The Kahn biopic was made at Warner Bros. in 1951 as I'll See You in My Dreams, with Danny Thomas as Kahn.) The film became a vehicle for Betty Grable with Richard Widmark and Paul Douglas to co-star.
January 23 – The film Casablanca is released nationally in the United States and becomes one of the top-grossing pictures of 1943. It goes on to win the Best Picture and Best Director awards at the 16th Academy Awards. February 20 – American film studio executives agree to allow the United States Office of War Information to censor films. [8]