The Gang's All Here

The Gang's All Here (1943) is an American Twentieth Century Fox Technicolor musical feature film starring Alice Faye, James Ellison, and Carmen Miranda in a story about a soldier and a nightclub singer. The film, directed and choreographed by Busby Berkeley, is considered a camp classic. One reviewer described it as "like a male hairdresser's acid trip" for its use of musical numbers with fruit hats. Musical highlights include Carmen Miranda perf... more

The Gang's All Here (1943) is an American Twentieth Century Fox Technicolor musical feature film starring Alice Faye, James Ellison, and Carmen Miranda in a story about a soldier and a nightclub singer. The film, directed and choreographed by Busby Berkeley, is considered a camp classic. One reviewer described it as "like a male hairdresser's acid trip" for its use of musical numbers with fruit hats. Musical highlights include Carmen Miranda performing an insinuating, witty version of "You Discover You're in New York" that lampoons fads, fashions, and wartime shortages of the time. The film is also memorable for Miranda's "The Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat", which because of its sexual innuendo (dozens of scantily clad women handling very large bananas), prevented the film from being shown in Miranda's native Portugal in its initial release. Alice Faye sings "A Journey to a Star," "No Love, No Nothin'," and the surreal finale "The Polka-Dot Polka." The film was nominated for an Academy... less