Irish Eyes Are Smiling
1944 film by Gregory Ratoff
- November 7, 1944 (1944-11-07) (United States)
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Irish Eyes Are Smiling is a 1944 United States musical film that chronicles the life of popular Irish song composer Ernest R. Ball.[2][3] The screenplay by Earl Baldwin and John Tucker Battle is based on a story by E. A. Ellington. The film was directed by Gregory Ratoff and produced by Damon Runyon for 20th Century Fox.[4] The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1944.
Plot
The movie is a musical account of the life of Ernest R. Ball, a gifted composer of many popular Irish songs, including the titular one.
Cast
- Monty Woolley ... Edgar Brawley
- June Haver ... Mary "Irish" O'Neill
- Dick Haymes ... Ernest R. Ball
- Anthony Quinn ... Al Jackson
- Beverly Whitney ... Lucille Lacey
- Maxie Rosenbloom ... Stanley Ketchel
- Veda Ann Borg ... Belle La Tour
- Clarence Kolb ... Leo Betz
- Leonard Warren ... Opera Singer
- Blanche Thebom ... Opera Singer
- Chick Chandler ... Stage Manager
- Muriel Page... Specialty Dancer
- Kenny Williams ... Specialty Dancer
- Michael Dalmatoff ... Headwaiter
Radio adaptation
Irish Eyes Are Smiling was presented on Lux Radio Theatre March 15, 1948. Haymes reprised his role from the movie in the adaptation.[5]
References
- ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 220
- ^ "Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944)". AFI. afi.com. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
- ^ "Irish Eyes Are Smiling". FilmAffinity. filmaffinity.com. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
- ^ Bosley Crowther (November 8, 1944). "The Screen: "Irish Eyes Are Smiling", a Tuneful Technicolored Show, With Dick Haymes and June Haver, Opens at the Roxy". The New York Times.
- ^ "Irish Eyes". Harrisburg Telegraph. March 13, 1948. p. 22. Retrieved August 8, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
- Irish Eyes Are Smiling at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- Irish Eyes Are Smiling at IMDb
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Films directed by Gregory Ratoff
- Sins of Man (1936)
- Lancer Spy (1937)
- Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
- Rose of Washington Square (1939)
- Hotel for Women (1939)
- Intermezzo (1939)
- Day-Time Wife (1939)
- Barricade (1939)
- I Was an Adventuress (1940)
- Public Deb No. 1 (1940)
- Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
- The Corsican Brothers (1941)
- The Men in Her Life (1941)
- Two Yanks in Trinidad (1942)
- Footlight Serenade (1942)
- Something to Shout About (1943)
- The Heat's On (1943)
- Song of Russia (1944)
- Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944)
- Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)
- Paris Underground (1945)
- Do You Love Me (1946)
- Carnival in Costa Rica (1947)
- Moss Rose (1947)
- That Dangerous Age (1949)
- Black Magic (1949)
- My Daughter Joy (1950)
- Taxi (1953)
- Abdulla the Great (1955)
- Oscar Wilde (1960)
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