Here Come the Girls


1h 18m 1953

Brief Synopsis

A chorus boy is used as bait to catch an attacker.

Film Details

Also Known As
Champagne for Everybody, Girls Are Here to Stay
Genre
Comedy
Musical
Release Date
Dec 1953
Premiere Information
Los Angeles and New York openings: 25 Dec 1953
Production Company
Hope Enterprises, Inc.; Paramount Pictures Corp.
Distribution Company
Paramount Pictures Corp.
Country
United States

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 18m
Sound
Mono
Color
Color (Technicolor)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Film Length
12 reels

Synopsis

In 1900, bumbling chorus boy Stanley Snodgrass gets himself fired from the cast of the Jersey City revue Here Come the Girls after he accidentally causes stars Irene Bailey and Allen Trent to fall off a chair during a performance. The show's producer, Harry Fraser, dismisses Stanley despite the pleas of co-star Daisy Crockett, who is in love with Stanley. Moments after Daisy and Stanley leave the theater, Irene receives a note attached to a flower arrangement that reads: "For your lover's funeral. If I can't have you, no one can." Meanwhile, the note's author, Jack the Slasher, slips into Allen's dressing room and stabs the entertainer with a knife. Jack flees as Irene and Harry break into the room, and though Allen's wound is not serious, he cannot go on in the show. Daisy, meanwhile, cheers Stanley up as they head for home on a steamboat, convincing him that he could be a star if he worked harder. Stanley, who still lives with his parents, then lies to his mother Emily and stepfather Albert about his position in the show, but is exposed when Harry's messenger arrives to reclaim his costume. Furious, Albert, who operates a coal delivery business, announces that after nineteen years, he is through bankrolling Stanley's show business career and demands that he get a real job. The next day, at the police station, Irene identifies Jack as Allen's attacker, revealing that she once smiled at him, unaware that he was wanted for several brutal murders. When police detective Dennis Logan suggests using Allen to trap the insanely jealous Jack, Allen balks. Harry then gets the idea to replace Allen in the revue with Stanley and have Irene romance him in public until the police catch Jack. To Albert's shock, Harry and Irene offer Stanley $100 a week and a room at the Waldorf-Astoria to star in the show. Although Stanley's starring debut is a laughable flop, Irene and Harry lavish him with praise, and Irene invites him to Delmonico's restaurant in Manhattan. The amorous Stanley brushes Daisy off and accepts, but on the way there, insists on going to the hotel, where he and Irene have adjoining suites. After Stanley dismisses Logan, who is posing as his valet, Irene panics and telephones Harry, demanding that he rescue her. While Irene is changing clothes in her suite, Jack suddenly appears and threatens to hurt her unless she ends her affair with Stanley. Jack flees before Logan can catch him, and oblivious, Stanley continues to romance Irene zealously until Harry arrives with some brandy. Eager to impress Irene, Stanley downs a snifter of brandy, and soon is quite drunk. The next morning, Jack, posing as the hotel barber, is about to cut hungover Stanley's throat when Logan sneaks up and knocks him out. With Jack in custody, Harry immediately fires Stanley, who then is forced to go to work for Albert, delivering coal. Soon, however, Logan learns that Jack has escaped, and notifies Harry. Moments after Stanley inadvertently drops a load of coal into a clothes chute at a laundry, Harry and Irene show up and reinstate him in the revue. Daisy, meanwhile, is told by some chorus girls that Irene is using Stanley to make Allen jealous and storms into the star's dressing room to confront her. Irene assumes that Daisy knows about Jack and reveals Logan's trap, but when Daisy tries to warn Stanley, he accuses her of being jealous. Stanley then goes on stage for an "Ali Baba" number, and while he is muffing his lines and stumbling around the set, Jack throws knives at him from the balcony. Once again, Jack slips away before Logan and his men can catch him, and Allen replaces the terrified Stanley. Logan, however, insists that Stanley go back on, and in desperation, Harry agrees to keep Stanley in the show for the run's duration if he returns to the stage. Ignoring Daisy's pleas, Stanley resumes his performance, while Jack grabs a knife off the prop table, knocks out one of the show's clowns, dons his costume and enters the stage. After a chase through the audience, Jack finally stabs Stanley on the trapeze, then is arrested. After getting him to admit that he loves her, Daisy then reveals to the gasping Stanley that Jack's knife was a harmless prop. One night, two years later, Stanley, who has married Daisy, attempts to make his entrance in the still-running Here Come the Girls . As has happened at every previous show, however, Stanley is waylaid in the wings by the resourceful Harry, who scoops him up with a giant hook.

Cast

Bob Hope

Stanley Snodgrass

Tony Martin

Allen Trent

Arlene Dahl

Irene Bailey

Rosemary Clooney

Daisy Crockett

Millard Mitchell

Albert Snodgrass

William Demarest

Dennis Logan

Fred Clark

Harry Fraser

Robert Strauss

Jack, the Slasher

Zamah Cunningham

Emily Snodgrass

Frank Orth

Mr. Hungerford

The Four Step Brothers

Hugh Sanders

Captain

Inesita

Specialty dancer

Vivian Mason

Chorus girl

Virginia Leith

Chorus girl

Phyllis Coates

Chorus girl

Jane Easton

Chorus girl

Alex Jackson

Adagio dancer and acrobat

Russ Saunders

Adagio dancer and acrobat

Pepito Perez

Clown

Richard Henry Lewis

Clown

Fred Sweeney

Clown

Pat Moran

Clown

Billy Curtis

Clown

Archie Brandon

Clown

Carl Wuebkes

Clown

Arthur Larue

Clown

Bobby Kay

Clown

Loren B. Brown

Trampoline act

Jack Smith Jackson

Clown with chimp

Joan Whitney

Joan

Johnny Downs

Bob

Charley Cooley

Sam

The Mar-vels

Walter Gross

Musical arranger

John Marlin

Bear man

Steve Calvert

Gorilla man

Dollye Katrine Green

Trapeze and iron jaw girl

Linda Couch Matchineff

Trapeze and iron jaw girl

Elaine Miller

Trapeze and iron jaw girl

Dolores Selin

Trapeze and iron jaw girl

Janice Voise

Trapeze and iron jaw girl

Maryanne Lamm

Trapeze girl

Jeralyn Kay

Trapeze girl

Miriam J. Wilson

Trapeze girl

Geraldine Lybarger

Trapeze girl

Joan A. Lewis

Trapeze girl

Emory Parnell

Mr. Garrity, police captain

Clancy Cooper

Otto

Theresa Harris

Josie

Paul Harvey

Mr. Newbold

Jimmy Hunt

Bang Crosby, call boy

Jesslyn Fax

Washwoman

Fay Holderness

Washwoman

Nancy Kulp

Washwoman

Greta Grandstedt

Washwoman

Anthony Warde

Moretti

Mike Ross

Fred

Cliff Clark

Hackenschmidt, cabbie

Harry Cording

Engineer

Mike Mahoney

Usher

Eve Whitney

Daphne

Lois Hall

Belle

Jack Chefe

Waiter

Jerry James

Script assistant

John Indrisano

Plainclothesman

Jim Davies

Plainclothesman

Pat Lane

Stage manager

Bill Meader

Sergeant

Dale Van Sickel

Policeman

Patrick Holmes

Chorus boy

Bert Henderson

Chorus boy

Hazel "sunny" Boyne

Old lady

Jack Roberts

Detective

Jack Stoney

Detective

Film Details

Also Known As
Champagne for Everybody, Girls Are Here to Stay
Genre
Comedy
Musical
Release Date
Dec 1953
Premiere Information
Los Angeles and New York openings: 25 Dec 1953
Production Company
Hope Enterprises, Inc.; Paramount Pictures Corp.
Distribution Company
Paramount Pictures Corp.
Country
United States

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 18m
Sound
Mono
Color
Color (Technicolor)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Film Length
12 reels

Quotes

Trivia

Notes

The working titles of this film were Girls Are Here to Stay and Champagne for Everybody. Onscreen credits for the four above-title actors include photographs of the performers in costume. Opening credits conclude with the following written statement: "In the year 1900, there lived a chorus boy named Stanley Snodgrass, who worked his way up from the gutter-only to discover that he had a round trip ticket." According to a January 1952 Variety news item, Martin Rackin was hired to co-write the script with story author Edmund Hartmann. Only Hal Kanter receives onscreen credit with Hartmann, however; Rackin's contribution to the completed film, if any, has not been determined. A February 1952 Hollywood Reporter item announced that director Claude Binyon would also work on the screenplay, but his contribution to the script has not been determined.
       According to an October 1952 Hollywood Reporter news item, Millard Mitchell replaced James Barton in the role of "Albert Snodgrass" after Barton fell "seriously ill." Although Barton did not die until 1962, his last completed film was the 1952 Twentieth Century-Fox release Golden Girl . Mitchell made his last screen appearance in Here Come the Girls; he died in October 1953, two months before the picture's release. According to Paramount production notes, contained in the file on the film in the AMPAS Library, guitarists Vido Momolo, Nestor, Joe Carioca and Vince Terri worked for two days pre-recording offbeat gypsy music for the picture. Elaine Riley and Artie McEnery are listed as cast members in Hollywood Reporter news items, but their appearance in the final film has not been confirmed. Sources conflict about the film's running time. Copyright records list the running time as 100 minutes, or 12 reels, while the Hollywood Reporter review gives the length as 86 minutes and other reviews list it as 77 to 78 minutes. The viewed print ran approximately 77 minutes.

Miscellaneous Notes

Released in United States February 24, 1993

Released in United States on Video February 24, 1993

c Technicolor

Released in United States February 24, 1993

Released in United States on Video February 24, 1993