Jack Mcgowan


Biography

Jack McGowan brought many screenplays to Hollywood throughout the course of his Hollywood career. McGowan began his writing career for film with such titles as "Sitting Pretty" (1933) with Jack Oakie, the musical "Born to Dance" (1936) with Eleanor Powell and the musical "Broadway Melody of 1936" (1936) with Jack Benny. McGowan last worked on "Broadway Rhythm" (1944) with Ginny Simm...

Biography

Jack McGowan brought many screenplays to Hollywood throughout the course of his Hollywood career. McGowan began his writing career for film with such titles as "Sitting Pretty" (1933) with Jack Oakie, the musical "Born to Dance" (1936) with Eleanor Powell and the musical "Broadway Melody of 1936" (1936) with Jack Benny. McGowan last worked on "Broadway Rhythm" (1944) with Ginny Simms. McGowan passed away in May 1977 at the age of 83.

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Broadway Melody Of 1940 (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Please Don't Monkey With Broadway Just established as a struggling duo working for free at a Broadway dance hall, Shaw and Britt (George Murphy and Fred Astaire) with a plucky introductory number with a Cole Porter original, early in MGM's Broadway Melody Of 1940, 1940.
Broadway Melody Of 1940 (1940) -- (Movie Clip) All Ashore Hoofer and would-be boyfriend Fred Astaire has hustled across Broadway to catch Clare (Eleanor Powell, her first scene) in her specialty number, tune by Roger Edens, early in MGM's Broadway Melody Of 1940, 1940, choreography by Bobby Connolly.
Broadway Melody Of 1940 (1940) -- (Movie Clip) I Concentrate On You The singing part of this Cole Porter number finished (with Douglas MacPhail, not seen), disguised Fred Astaire as "Johnny," standing in for an indisposed pal, joins Eleanor Powell as "Clare," in MGM's Broadway Melody Of 1940, 1940, directed by Norman Taurog.
Babes In Arms (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Good Morning Mickey Rooney (as "Mickey") and Judy Garland ("Patsy") make their first appearance introducing this famous tune by Nacio Herb Brown and the producer, Arthur Freed, written for this MGM update of the Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart musical Babes In Arms, 1939, directed by Busby Berkeley.
Babes In Arms (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Title Song Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland and Douglas MacPhail lead their determined band of teenage second generation vaudevillians in the not often heard title song from the original Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart musical, director Busby Berkeley letting fly, in MGM's Babes In Arms, 1939.
Babes In Arms (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Where Or When Advanced shooting by director Busby Berkeley and cameraman Ray June, Don and Molly (Douglas MacPhail, Betty Jaynes) rehearsing for the kids' musical, earning no praise from Mickey (Rooney) or Patsy (Judy Garland), with the Rodgers and Hart tune from the original show, in Babes In Arms, 1939.

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