Here Come the Girls (1953)

Director:

Claude Binyon

Writers:

Edmund L. Hartmann (story)
Edmund L. Hartmann (writer) ...

Release Date:

22 October 1953 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Musical

Tagline:

MORE GIGGLES...MORE GAGS...MORE GALS!... (original print ad - all caps)

Plot:

Bob Hope stars as an inept member of the chorus boy in a turn of the century stage show. After being fired, he finds himself starring acting as a decoy when a killer goes after the real star. |

Plot Keywords:

Killer | Show Within A Show | Decoy | Beautiful Woman

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	...	Mrs. Emily Snodgrass
Frank Orth	...	Mr. Hungerford
The Four Step Brothers	...	Dance Specialty

Also Known As:

Champagne for Everybody

Runtime:

78 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

USA:Approved (PCA #16369) | Finland:S

Company:

Hope Enterprises

Trivia:

Millard Mitchell's final movie.

Quotes:

Hackenschmidt - Cabbie: That's all right, Stanley... just remember, you're helping me clean stables next Sunday.
Stanley Snodgrass: I'll remember, if the wind is right.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Conquest of Space (1955)

Soundtrack:

Never So Beautiful

Funny Hope

In 1953's "Here Come the Girls," Bob Hope is a pathetic chorus boy in a production around the turn of the century. The leads (Arlene Dahl, Tony Martin) want him out of the show, and his only friend is his girlfriend (Rosemary Clooney). Finally, the producer (Fred Clark) fires him, only to bring him back immediately. A serial killer obsessed with Dahl goes after Martin and injures him badly. So poor Bob is put back in the show - this time as the lead - just until the serial killer (Robert Strauss) can go after him and, as far as everyone is concerned, hopefully kill him. Dahl pretends to be enamored of him, and Hope starts ignoring Clooney.

This is very funny Hope, the energetic, cowardly, naive Hope that everyone loved in the '40s. Unfortunately, although it's a musical, we don't get to hear much from Martin and Clooney, neither of which have a tremendous amount to do. That's a shame.

Hope, of course, couldn't play that youthful character forever; eventually his films became stale with old jokes and a staid, wisecracking Bob. But here he still shines. The beautiful Arlene Dahl is his costar. She doesn't have much to do except look dazzling, never a problem for her.

Look out for the young boy named "Bang Crosby" whom Hope meets along the way. Enjoyable film.