One of the most joyous numbers in Hollywood musicals!
@michaelbarnett83148 жыл бұрын
Phil Silvers was 33 when he appeared in this film. He was simply magnificent. Incidentally Gene Kelly and Rita Hayworth were perfect together, what talents
@Noura-bv9pv5 жыл бұрын
michael barnett what if he was 33?
@coloraturaElise4 жыл бұрын
@@Noura-bv9pv He posted that because someone else in the comments said that Phil Silvers was "on the wrong side of forty".
@jchristopher74 Жыл бұрын
@@coloraturaElise In fairness, nothing aged you like being in the past.
@bigred99712 жыл бұрын
1. the producer did not want phil silvers to do the number because he could not dance. but gene kelly threw a tantrum and demanded that the audience would get a kick out of a comedian who was not a pro at dancing hang with kelly and hayworth. 2. the "glad to see ya" was phil's calling card by then and an ad-lib suggested by him to the director. 3, the drunk at the end did a lot of small parts for columbia and played a drunk in a famous WWII 3 stooges short.
@paprika19514 жыл бұрын
bigred997 thanks for the info! So Phil Silvers can’t dance, huh? Just watch him starting right around where they encounter the milkman. Silvers was straight outta vaudeville and in those days that meant you could fake anything - and with a tutor like Kelly learn to tap like a genius! Yes children, it is possible to do it all - just stay limber, keep your eyes open and if someone asks you if you can high dive, say yes!
@esmeephillips58884 жыл бұрын
@@paprika1951 Bilko was no Ebsen or Bolger, but he could do a buck and wing all right. He more than holds his own here. Although 'eccentric dancing' is easier for the less accomplished, because mistakes can be passed off as intentional, I see no flubs. The camaraderie of this number looks forward to 'Good Morning' and the title song from 'Singin' in the Rain'. Kelly was much keener on gang's-all-here teamwork than Astaire, e.g. in 'On the Town'.
@JoeLibby4 жыл бұрын
Harry the drunk is played by Jack Norton. He frequently played comic drunks onscreen. Interestingly, he was a teetotaler in real life.
@coloraturaElise4 жыл бұрын
Gene "threw a tantrum"? How about 'Gene had great instincts about what the public would want to see, and this number and his future multiple Academy Awards proved he was right!'
@a.nobodys.nobody Жыл бұрын
@@coloraturaElisehow about maybe he threw a tantrum
@richardbale32786 ай бұрын
Hayworth was devastatingly beautiful and could keep up with Kelly. I wish that they had done more together.
@Classicgirl5212 жыл бұрын
"Don't let the clouds let u down, show me a smile not a frown" This song is so catchy I LOVE it! :)
@williamsnyder56169 жыл бұрын
This was a Columbia film, but it has the aura of the classic MGM musicals. Metro had yet to find a musical film that exploited Gene Kelly's great talents, so they lent him to Columbia. When Kelly arrived at Columbia, he looked at the script and envisioned a great show-stopping number, but Columbia didn't have a big enough sound stage, so he said to studio chief Harry Cohn, "You gotta knock out a wall and create a super stage." The result was this great number, which helped the film to get an Oscar for best Adapted Score.
@esmeephillips58884 жыл бұрын
Harry Cohn bought the idea for a musical about a magazine cover star from a publicity flack at Warners, where it had been turned down. Cohn had nurtured Rita for several years (including two years of electrolysis on her widow's peak) and was bent on making her as lucrative as Faye or Grable at Fox. Rita had broken through in her two pictures with Fred and was ready to headline. Cohn took a gamble on Kelly, who himself had just gotten noticed in 'Pal Joey' on Broadway. Like him or not, and few did, Mr C had a nose for a hit and the people to make it.
@williamsnyder56164 жыл бұрын
@@esmeephillips5888 You're right about Cohn. Early on, Cohn had this vision Columbia could be great studio. It never had the repuations of MGM, Fox or Warners, but it more than held its own with good quality. Cohn was responsible for that.
@ShiksaWithChutzpah111 жыл бұрын
Phil Silvers really held his own with Rita and Gene. He is so much fun to watch.
@alangranville2845 жыл бұрын
With all due respect to the monumental talent of Gene Kelly and Phil Silvers I can't take my eyes of Rita Hayworth. Not only for her stunning beauty but for the charm of her dancing. What a great number.
@susanlloyd73954 жыл бұрын
I can't take my eyes off Gene Kelly
@sanfranciscoprofessor2581 Жыл бұрын
yes. there's always a charming personality coming through her dancing. The dancing isn't a gymnastic event she's competing in, like the dreary numbers on So You think You Can Dance. The dance seems to be a happy outburst of some genuine joy inside her. And I don't think that's just acting, either. She loves to dance.
@NovaJake3607 жыл бұрын
I thought the movie was just average, but THIS number is so full of energy and joyous! Love it.
@esmeephillips58884 жыл бұрын
Some of Rita's acting is still rough, admittedly. That drunk scene, sheesh. She improved in a hurry by the time of 'Gilda' and 'Lady from Shanghai'... what being Orson Welles's SO can do to sharpen your power to convey treachery, I guess. She was hugging her engagement to herself while shooting 'Cover Girl', poor child.
@FilmBuffClassic11 жыл бұрын
This always reminded me of "Good Morning!" :)
@susanlloyd73954 жыл бұрын
Also has overtones of the Primitive Man number in On The Town.
@BrendanJSmith9 жыл бұрын
Classic. Absolutely classic.
@jacklaw79327 жыл бұрын
yes!
@lizaelliott68627 жыл бұрын
This song always gives me hope for tomorrow ❤️😌
@leonardohummel86583 ай бұрын
This is a dazzling, delightful, amazing routine. All three in near perfect synch❗
@tommyvermiglio16498 жыл бұрын
Gene Kelly And Rita Hayworth And Phil Slivers Are My Favorite Actors
@salomejurovillegas1120 Жыл бұрын
Que grato momento he pasado mirando esté video..gracias
@Largo3point07 жыл бұрын
Never get tired of this!
@misspaddylee12 жыл бұрын
That's teetotaler Jack Norton as Harry, the drunk. He has close to 200 movie credits and probably played a drunk in all of them. Let's give Phil Silvers a pat on the back. He finished with a smile on his face and still breathing.
@kevins.butler34024 жыл бұрын
No..Jack Norton did two sober roles on screen"Woman Haters" with "The Three Stooges",And "The Awful Tooth"with "The Our Gang"/"The Little Rascals".
@frederickburke99444 жыл бұрын
I have a hard time noticing anything in this other than Rita's unbelievable hair.
@rondarawson62364 жыл бұрын
I miss the nostalgia.....it was heavenly
@steveweinstein32223 жыл бұрын
You can miss the nostalgia conjures up, but you can't miss nostalgia.
@carloscruzbatallas802211 жыл бұрын
i love this movie
@richardbale32786 ай бұрын
What a joyous bit in one of the finest films ever made!
@Mollexi10 жыл бұрын
Best. Song. Ever!
@robertrandolph1075 жыл бұрын
Agreed!!!
@anairenemartinez1656 жыл бұрын
I never knew Rita was this great dancer and commedia new. I love her.
@kaylangford52655 жыл бұрын
Then you have to see her dance with Fred Astaire.
@coloraturaElise4 жыл бұрын
She came from a theatrical family who were dancers, she was raised doing it, so she was already a pro by the time she got into movies.
@williamsnyder56164 жыл бұрын
@@kaylangford5265 Watch Rita and Fred in "I'm Old Fashiioned" in "You Were Never Lovelier." Like dancing in the cluds.
@vin.handle Жыл бұрын
What a dance team! Gene Kelly and Phil Silvers.
@theogoldberg891910 ай бұрын
#littlehours Bless you for sharing. RITA GENE PHIL ANGELS IN AMERICA THEM NO MORE … GOD BLESS THEIR BLESSED MEMORY….
@PakistaniCult8 жыл бұрын
Mad respect to my kid, Phil Silvers. The dude was on the wrong side of forty when he did this film yet undertook the dancing like a flighty kitten. Bro is amazing. I wanna live in this scene.
@Noura-bv9pv5 жыл бұрын
PakistaniCult he was only 33
@a.nobodys.nobody Жыл бұрын
@@Noura-bv9pvexactly. 'The wrong side of 40'.
@thomasleary28148 жыл бұрын
Make Way for Yesterday! This marvelous number is a bit of a precursor to the "Good Morning" number from "Singin' in the Rain." Love the bit with the milkman - and I bet he didn't even get a credit!
@recovering168 жыл бұрын
+Thomas Leary Exactly what I was thinking. (The "Good Morning" scene in Singing in the Rain - only then it was Gene, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds. Both fantastic dancing skills.
@anairenemartinez1656 жыл бұрын
Thomas Leary This came first? I wonder why it is as well known as Singing in the rain? What's called?
@williamsnyder56166 жыл бұрын
"Singin' in the Rain" was in a class by itself. But this film was one of the biggest box office films of 1944 ($8M, which was HUGE box office for a war-time movie). As I mentioned elsewhere, it made Gene Kelly a super-star because his home studio, MGM, hadn't realized his potential as a musical star. Metro loaned him to Columbia, which paired him with that studio's top star, Rita Hayworth. When Kelly returned to Metro, Louis B. Mayer never loaned him to another studio again.
@thomasleary62875 жыл бұрын
@@anairenemartinez165 Ana, this film is called "Cover Girl" (1944). "Singin in the Rain" (my favorite musical) was released in 1952.
@worldinsights9304 жыл бұрын
@@thomasleary6287 But the song 'Good Mornin' is older than the 1953 movie. It is even sung by Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in a MGM low-budget movie released in 1930s.
@Elainerulesutube Жыл бұрын
What good dancer Phil Silvers was!
@RaziyaAkins6 жыл бұрын
never realized Gene recreated "Cover Girl" 's formula in "Singing in the Rain" until now .
@tonispywriter12 жыл бұрын
I love this number!
@esmeephillips5888 Жыл бұрын
Kelly stresses his "just a regular guy" image by working everyday objects and types into the choreography: no top hats and champagne glasses like Fred, just sacks, brooms, trash cans, lampposts, a milkman, a smoochy couple and an amiable drunk. He reused the suspicious cop pulling him up short in 'Singin' in the Rain'.
@kevins.butler34025 жыл бұрын
Yeah! Sing about That Great Tomorrow Rita,Gene & Phil.
@paulineg200246 жыл бұрын
I love that scene! I love that song, even if I know it isn't Rita's voice... :/ She was an amazing dancer! And Gene too!!! ❤❤❤
@paulineg200246 жыл бұрын
And I love that movie so much ♡
@richardbale32786 ай бұрын
@@paulineg20024If you are a heterosexual man and look at Rita Hayworth in this film and not fall instantly in love.
@arthurchater84198 жыл бұрын
Diva
@kevinbutler1955NYC3 жыл бұрын
Along with Gene and Rita..Phil was also a wonderful dancer.
@dale195324 жыл бұрын
Many years ago at Greenbrier, George, Cherie and I shared a similar relationship. I of course was the Phil Silvers character! This was our theme song!
@steveweinstein32223 жыл бұрын
Pardon me for my ignorance but who's George Cherie??
@djtanguy8 жыл бұрын
C'est Génial !! :-D Alors moi je me suis retrouvé ici suite au générique de Iron Man 2 ^^
@renarga68865 жыл бұрын
Jazz Age Hollywood ❤
@susanlloyd73956 жыл бұрын
Choreographed by Gene Kelly, of course.
@tommyvermiglio16497 жыл бұрын
Phil Silvers Passed Away In 1985
@tommyvermiglio16497 жыл бұрын
Phil Silvers Passed Away In 1985
@jacklaw79327 жыл бұрын
c00lness!
@barrythomas73362 жыл бұрын
Seeing "Sgt. Bilko" dance is intriguing. Too bad they couldn't have worked Phil Silvers' musical talents into "You'll Never Get Rich" somehow. ("Betcha a million that Sarge can't dance or sing!")
@nazaren45 Жыл бұрын
👍👍
@tommyvermiglio16498 жыл бұрын
That's A Columbia Film And MGM Films That Gene Kelly Was In
@dale195324 жыл бұрын
Glad ta see ya!
@Kroonerguy3 жыл бұрын
Edward Brophy (1895-1960) plays the Joe the Cafe Owner.
@manryhood6 жыл бұрын
Gene and Rita imo lacked the precision that Fred and Ginger had, but boy do they have energy. I wish the former had made more movies together. I think Rita looked beautiful in both of her movies with Fred, but dance-wise, I feel like this is her best.
@steveweinstein32223 жыл бұрын
Kelly was signed to Metro, Hayworth to Columbia. I'm surprised the studio lent him out for this film.
@williamsnyder561611 ай бұрын
@@steveweinstein3222 MGM had yet to realize Kelly's creativity and Metro didn't have anything ready for Gene when producer Arthur Schwartz called asking to borrow Kelly for ''Cover Girl.'' The result was electric. Not only was ''Make Way for Tomorrow'' highly entertaining, but Kelly's ''Alter Ego'' dance was a show-stopper as was Rita's trip down a winding clouded staircase in the film's title song with all the Cover Girls in brilliant Technicolor. The huge success for Kelly in a rival studio's hit film was an embarrassment for Louis B. Mayer. When Columbia's Harry Cohn beat Mayer for the rights to Kelly's Broadway hit, ''Pal Joey,'' Mayer nixed Cohn's request for Kelly to re-team with Rita again.
@steveweinstein322211 ай бұрын
@@williamsnyder5616 Thanks for the info. Astaire said Hayworth was the best dance partner he ever had.
@sclogse19 жыл бұрын
A fun number that I think gets pulled down because of the browns in the sets. Even Gene wears a brown suit. They don't separate from the environment as much as they should. Get that brown with three hots and a flop on the first thing smokin' outta town.
@BrendanJSmith9 жыл бұрын
from far away, Rita Hayworth looks a lot like Katharine Hepburn!
@renarga68868 жыл бұрын
+Brendan Geier I think she resembles Lucille Ball in some scenes.
@williamsnyder561611 ай бұрын
Interesting that you should mention ''far away'' since the Oscar-nominated song from the film is the haunting Jerome Kern-Ira Gershwin song, ''Long Ago and Far Away.''
@TheStockwell Жыл бұрын
2:40 So, cops back then were known for clubbing people for singing and dancing outside diners? Boy, they were strict in those days! 😉 I think this same flatfoot was stalking Gene Kelly years later, at the end of the 'Singing in the Rain" dance number.
@YorkistWhiteRose9 жыл бұрын
It's been how long since you left Harvard?
@davidmiller40787 ай бұрын
Who was the Milkman ? He was pretty good
@esmeephillips58884 жыл бұрын
Don't remember Silvers ever hoofing a step as Bilko, but he holds his own here. Did his hair fall out suddenly, or was that a piece?
@stevebilko3 жыл бұрын
a piece
@rogerpropes71295 жыл бұрын
That lamppost looks familiar, is that the same street Kelly danced down in 'Singin' in the Rain'?
@cameliamortila97715 жыл бұрын
Roger Propes I tought the same...
@esmeephillips58884 жыл бұрын
@@cameliamortila9771 Different studio, different lot.
@sanfranciscoprofessor2581 Жыл бұрын
Sgt Bilko was a great dancer too?!!
@esmeephillips5888 Жыл бұрын
He put on weight when he moved towards TV. I don't remember him hoofing as Bilko, but he had come into the biz as a musical-comedy performer, not as a comedic wisecracker like Bert Lahr. When Phil still had hair, he was a nifty mover who could follow in Gene's and Rita's time steps, but he did not take care of himself- unlike, say, Buddy Ebsen.