The Harvey Girls
The Harvey Girls is a 1946 Technicolor American musical film produced by Arthur Freed for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is based on the 1942 novel of the same name by Samuel Hopkins Adams, about Fred Harvey's Harvey House waitresses. Directed by George Sidney, the film stars Judy Garland and features John Hodiak, Ray Bolger, and Angela Lansbury, as well as Preston Foster, Virginia O'Brien, Kenny Baker, Marjorie Main and Chill Wills. Future star Cyd Charisse appears in her first speaking role on film.
Plot
In the 1890s, a group of "Harvey Girls"– new waitresses for Fred Harvey's pioneering chain of Harvey House restaurants– travels on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway to the American Southwest town of Sandrock. On the trip they meet Susan Bradley, who is travelling to the same town to marry the man whose beautiful letters she received when she answered a "lonely-hearts" ad.
More details
| author | Samson Raphaelson |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Utah |
| director | George Sidney Robert Alton |
| editor | Albert Akst |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | american southwest burn dance-hall girls fight fred harvey fred harvey company harvey house lonely-hearts ad personal advertisement rid run saloon owner surround taxi dance hall think wed |
| musicBy | Harry Warren |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score |
| producer | Arthur Freed |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| publisher | Loews Cineplex Entertainment |
| theme | musical musical comedy romantic comedy romantic musical |