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My Gal Sal
Original theater lobby and sidewalk publicity poster color artwork for 'My Gal Sal' (1942)
Directed byIrving Cummings
Written bySeton I. Miller
Darrell Ware
Karl Tunberg
Helen Richardson (uncredited contributing writer)
Based onstory "My Brother Paul" from the book Twelve Men
by Theodore Dreiser
Produced byRobert Bassler
StarringRita Hayworth
Victor Mature
Carole Landis
CinematographyErnest Palmer
Edited byRobert L. Simpson
Music byLeigh Harline
Cyril J. Mockridge
Color processTechnicolor
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • April 30, 1942 (1942-04-30)
Running time
103 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.7 million (US rentals)[1][2]

My Gal Sal is a 1942 American musical film distributed by 20th Century Fox and starring Rita Hayworth and Victor Mature. The film is a biopic of 1890s German-American composer / songwriter Paul Dresser and singer Sally Elliot. It was based on a biographical essay, sometimes erroneously referred to as a book, by Dresser's younger brother, novelist Theodore Dreiser (Dreiser was the original German family name). Some of the songs portrayed as Dresser's work were actually written by him, but several others were created in the 1890s style for the film by the Hollywood songwriting team of Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin.[3]

Sally Elliott, a musical star meets up with Indiana boy Paul Dresser, a runaway who after a brief stopover with a medicine show arrives in the Gay Nineties era of New York City. He composes the title tune for the fair lady and becomes the toast of Tin Pan Alley.[4]

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Plot

Indiana boy Paul Dresser runs away from home to become a musician against the wishes of his strict father who is determined Paul will become a minister instead. After being run out of town and left for dead for mistakenly being associated with a conman, he is found by Colonel Truckee - a travelling snake oil salesman - and his medicine show.

There, he meets Mae Collins, who encourages him to join them. During one of his performance, Sally Elliot laughs at Paul which offends him, and her companion, Fred Haviland gives him two tickets to her show, which Paul and Mae attend. However, they are kicked out for being too boisterous. Paul decides that night that he's leaving the medicine show for good and bids Mae goodbye.

Upon his return to New York, he overhears a man playing piano and finds out that Sally has stolen the song he played at the medicine show but added her own lyrics. Paul decides to hire the man he overheard playing the piano as his publisher and joins him in reclaiming his rights over the song. Paul ends up becoming Sally's personal songwriter for her shows.

Paul begins falling for her, despite her engagement to Fred. After writing songs in Sally's apartment the day following the party to celebrate the success of 'Come Tell Me Whats Your Answer (Yes or No)' - the two kiss. From there they achieve success after success. When Paul shows up late to one of many celebration parties with the Countess Mariana Rossini, Sally blows up at Paul and gives him the cold shoulder. Following more petty quarrelling, he proposes marriage to Sally and she accepts.

That night, Paul returns to his apartment and finds the Countess' husband has challenged him to a duel. Enraged at the idea of it alone, Paul storms over to the Countess' home to confront the Count - only to find it was all a ploy by the Countess to see him again. Sally witnesses him returning from the Countess' party and assumes the worst. She breaks their engagement and refuses to sing his music ever again, until Paul sends a man with a song dedicated to her under a pen name which she performs with great success. When he reveals that he was the one who wrote it - after much bickering - the two decide to reconcile.

Cast

Choreographer Hermes Pan appears as Hayworth's dance partner in the "Gay White Way" number.

Awards

The film won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color (Richard Day, Joseph C. Wright and Thomas Little). It also was nominated for Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture (Alfred Newman).[5]

Production

20th Century Fox head Darryl F. Zanuck purchased the story of My Gal Sal from Theodore Dreiser for $50,000 in the summer of 1942. Zanuck initially had the script and the lead role of Sally Elliott tailor-made to fit the talents of Fox's biggest female star at the time, Alice Faye. Faye was going to star with Carole Landis, George Montgomery, and John Shepperd.[6]

However, Faye stated that she was tired of starring in costume musicals and turned the film down. Afterward, the part was offered to Betty Grable, who was becoming known as a successor to Faye at Fox, but who turned it down, believing Fox was over-working her.

Zanuck thereafter had the script rewritten and redirected to showcase Irene Dunne, but her busy film schedule meant holding up production on My Gal Sal for eighteen months. Zanuck subsequently approached the legendary famous diva of early silent and talkies film star Mae West with the role, but she too turned it down. Zanuck considered grooming newcomer Carole Landis for the part, but her screen test failed to impress the producers. Despite not winning the part of Sally Elliott, Landis did end up playing the secondary lead of Mae Collins in the film, because she had already been publicized as appearing in the film.

Zanuck finally approached Harry Cohn, head of Columbia Pictures, about borrowing Rita Hayworth for the film. Zanuck had been impressed with Hayworth's performance in the 1941 film version of Blood and Sand, also for Fox. Cohn, on the other hand, was hoping to buy My Gal Sal from Fox and cast Hayworth in the part upon the film's transfer to Columbia. Zanuck, however, rebuffed at selling the film, but instead offered Hayworth an exclusive two-movie contract to star in My Gal Sal and Tales of Manhattan (1942). Cohn eventually agreed to loan Hayworth to Fox for both movies.[7]

Victor Mature's role was originally meant to be played by Don Ameche.[8]

Reception

My Gal Sal received positive reviews upon its 1942 release.

'The trade news publication "Daily Variety said the film was a very "lively, merry musical treat. A pricture crammed with color, songs, and movement, carrying broad appeal for all theatergoers, both young and old." Hayworth was proclaimed to have done a "beautiful job" as Sally, while Victor Mature turned out an "impressing performance" as Dresser.

Life magazine stated: My Gal Sal hits a current demand, both in the movies and in radio, for the nostalgic delights of the 1890s."

The film went on to become one of the most-successful Fox films during 1942.

Some of Rita Hayworth's lines were sampled in the Pet Shop Boys 1996 track "Electricity." The film happened to be playing on television while the track was being recorded, and was not publicly identified until 2019.[9]

References

  1. ^ "101 Pix Gross in Millions" Variety 6 Jan 1943 p 58
  2. ^ "WHICH CINEMA FILMS HAVE EARNED THE MOST MONEY SINCE 1914?". The Argus. Melbourne. 4 March 1944. p. 3 Supplement: The Argus Weekend magazine. Retrieved 6 August 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "My Gal Sal (1942) - Music - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  4. ^ "My Gal Sal (1942) - Articles - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  5. ^ "NY Times: My Gal Sal". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-09-06. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
  6. ^ DOUGLAS W CHURCHILL (29 September 1941). "SCREEN NEWS HERE AND IN HOLLYWOOD". New York Times. ProQuest 105543903.
  7. ^ DOUGLAS W CHURCHILL (5 March 1941). "Theodore Dreiser Biography Is Bought by Fox -- Monogram Gives Production Schedule". New York Times. p. 17.
  8. ^ "Of Local Origin". New York Times. 13 December 1941. p. 24.
  9. ^ Studer, Wayne. "Electricity". Pet Shop Boys Commentary. Retrieved 2019-07-04.

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