Babes on Broadway is a 1941 musical movie starring Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, and Virginia Weidler and directed by Busby Berkeley. Donna Reed appeared uncredited as a secretary; Margaret O'Brien also appears uncredited as an ambitious little girl at an audition who melodramatically pleads: "Don't send my brother to the chair! Don't let him burn!"
Songs include: "How About You?", "Hoe Down", "Bombshell from Brazil", and "Chin Up, Ch...
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Babes on Broadway is a 1941 musical movie starring Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, and Virginia Weidler and directed by Busby Berkeley. Donna Reed appeared uncredited as a secretary; Margaret O'Brien also appears uncredited as an ambitious little girl at an audition who melodramatically pleads: "Don't send my brother to the chair! Don't let him burn!"
Songs include: "How About You?", "Hoe Down", "Bombshell from Brazil", and "Chin Up, Cheerio, Carry On", "Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones", as well as such standards as "Mama Yo Quiero", "The Yankee Doodle Boy", and "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee".
The movie ends with a minstrel show performed by the main cast in blackface.
This was the third film in the 'Back-yard Musical' Series. Others included Babes in Arms (1939), Strike Up the Band (1940) and Girl Crazy (1943)
Good News (1947) and Summer Stock (1950) were also planned to become part of the series, although Judy Garland starred in the latter with Gene Kelly.
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